Wombs for Rent: India’s Surrogate Mother Boomtown (Voigt, 2013)
Voigt, Kevin, Mallika Kapur, and Lonzo Cook. “Wombs for Rent: India’s Surrogate Mother Boomtown.” CNN, November 3, 2013.
URL: www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/asia/india-surrogate-mother-industry/index.html
Commercial surrogacy is a booming business in India, where women are promised US$8,000 to carry another woman’s child. In Western India, 50 surrogates live together under the care of an Indian physician who specializes in commercial surrogacy. In the words of one of the surrogates interviewed for the article, “Of course I feel bad — I kept the child in my womb for nine months,” she said. “But she needs a child; I need money.”







