My Comment: It’s called “The Akanksha Infertility Clinic”. Really? I’m speechless. This is not what a fertility clinic is about.
(Daily Mail) Jennifer Benito-Kowalski traveled 9,000 miles from home to meet her son for the first time after hiring an Indian surrogate – a common practice for American women desperate to find a cost-effective way to have a baby.
After spending more than $30,000 on 20 unsuccessful rounds of intrauterine insemination, Jennifer and her husband Steve Kowalski turned to a well-known ‘baby factory’ in India.
The Kowalskis say it’s a win-win formula – the gestational carrier gets paid more than she could earn in a lifetime, and the affluent couple gets a healthy baby with their own DNA.
Emotional: California’s Jennifer Benito-Kowalski (right) receives gifts for baby Kyle from surrogate Manisha Parmar at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Gujarat, India
Elation: Jennifer Benito-Kowalski (center) and Steve Kowalski look at gifts for baby Kyle from surrogate Manisha Parmar (left) as two former surrogates look on at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic
New mom: Hospital helper Hansa Harjan (center) shows baby Kyle to his mother, Jennifer Benito-Kowalski (left) and grandmother Sue Kowalski for the first time at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic
However critics say the practice of ‘human baby farming‘ is exploitative, turning vulnerable women, usually from developing countries, into ‘ovens’.
For the Kowalskis, their son Kyle is a gift that could only be delivered through outsourcing.
The couple from San Carlos, in California, shared their story with the San Francisco Chronicle.
They said the Akanksha Infertility Clinic was a last resort after four years of failed IVF, fertility treatments and normal conception.
‘Some people just get to have sex,’ Steve, 41, said. ‘It’s not fair.’
Bonding: Surrogate Manisha Parmar comforts her daughter Urvashi, 3, at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic just days before she is due to give birth to Kyle
Unassuming: The Akanksha Infertility Clinic in downtown Anand, India, is near this block. Hundreds of clients from around the world travel to the clinic each year for surrogates
‘Baby factory‘: More than 80 surrogates sleep at Akanksha Infertility Clinic’s dormitories on the outskirts of Anand India where they stay for most of their pregnancy
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I can understand the strong desire to have one’s own child, and the pain and heartache from not being able to conceive; but, this practice is horrendous. We should address the problems at home that are causing infertility in the first place. It is abnormal for so many women in the US unable to conceive that they hire out impoverished women to be human incubators…feels like slavery to me. How much of the money paid actually goes to the uterine-enslaved women? If they actually saw even a fraction of that money THEN why are they still impoverished? This breaks my heart on so many levels. Children are a blessing from God, but this situation doesn’t feel like a blessing. The one really getting used here is the surrogate. The couple has their baby and go back home to their suburban lifestyle, the clinic has its loads of money, the surrogate has health sucked from her body for a few dollars and turns around to do it again because the surrogates are STILL impoverished. That clinic is a pimp factory for impoverished women’s uteri.
I would feel different if the surrogate was doing so out of the kindness of her heart because she wanted to be a blessing for the couple. And gave them their child to raise and love without payment for her services involved (it does happen), but the situation of using impoverished women, who have nothing but their bodies, as baby incubators for the wealthy is just cruel and abusive.
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I agree with you, whole heartedly. I truly do. This left me almost speechless. I can’t figure out how these people justify what they are doing. The pain, and heartache that these women feel has to be heart wrenching. This is different as you pointed out, these women are exploited and used like cattle. This is not someone deciding that Adoption would be better than abortion or someone as you said who wanted to bless someone with the gift of a child. This is Horrendous!
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