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Just wondering... Fertility Politics

About a month ago the following article appeared in the New York Times, describing the boom of womb surrogacy as valid employement option in India. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/world/asia/10surrogate.html 

The implicit customer/consumer in the transaction is a white upper to middle class western woman. 

The product is... what? A person? An infant? Time? Care labor?  

Part of the ripple in the blogosphere relates to the fact that commercial surrogacy has existed for quite a while, at high cost. But to outsource our reporductive abilties and work to India is particularly fraught with stress for middle class america due to the afforadbility offered.

More later, maybe. 

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