When Patricia Bohanon, an American teacher, flies home to Colorado from India on Sunday, she will carry a precious made-in-India baggage: an embryo.
This embryo, which was born in a petri-dish out of anonymous contributions from an Indian sperm donor and an egg donor, was transferred to Bohanon, who will deliver the Indian baby as her own in the first week of December.
The trend for embryo adoption is fast gaining momentum and may overtake traditional adoption as it allows adoptive mothers to experience all aspects of motherhood, including labour pains and birth.
Adoption of embryos is taking off in India in particular where costs are low and Indian families in poverty can be seen donating sperm and eggs as a way to make money and feed their existing families.
The morality of such actions by westerners in a developing Country are being questioned by some, but as many point out, with strict adoption laws making traditional adoption impossible for single mothers without a high income, the cheap alternative of embryo adoption in India is proving their only route to motherhood.
For more on this topic follow this link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Embryo-adoption-is-latest-trend/articleshow/5562810.cms
No comments:
Post a Comment