Of late the news has been full of the successful moon landing by India and its advent into an elite club of nations who have reached the moon. Another bit of news that came by me along with this momentous occasion was of a Gay Israeli Couple who have had a baby with a Mumbai based surrogate mother.
Yonatan and Omer Gher who have been together for seven years made a survey on having a child by a surrogate mother and found India the winner. It seems that while adoption is possible in many countries and surrogate mothers are available for infertile couples of the regular kind, same-sex couples have no such wide choice. For a same sex couple looking for a surrogate mother there are only two countries allowing the procedure legally. Guess which two? The USA and India.
Naturally the couple isn’t too happy with Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which does not recognise their “married status” and in fact considers their being together an illegal crime. However they are extremely happy about the fact that a single male can choose to be a father and hire a surrogate mother. The clause that allowed Yonatan to be the donor for their one month old baby, Evyatar. The name Evyatar means “many fathers”, being rather apt in this case.
So while this couple enjoys their new child it also gives us a new reason to rejoice over India. After all it’s only because of the considerable difference in costs between the US and India that made them choose India for this gimmick in the first place. I feel this really is the limit of outsourcing. And we all know who tops the list of Multinational Outsourcers.
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NICE one....
i remeber reading this article in the newspaper .....but what is amazing is that you have given a new perspective to the whole thing ...interesting observation human brain is indeed intriguing
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