Outsourcing Wombs
Prevailing wage rates in India are, as we all know, much lower than in the United States. Ergo, offshore outsourcing, which, it seems, is now moving into the surrogate mothering field, where you can apparently rent a womb for the low, low price of 5,000 -- a mere fraction of what it would cost to pay an American to do the job.
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I guess this might be mostly beside the point, but the question that came immediately to my mind is how this impacts citizenship. Does anyone know of relevant caselaw on surrogacy?
April 19, 2006 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bring her over on a green card?
April 19, 2006 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Surrrogate mothering is the outsourcing of wombs. I don't think it's any more or less creepy when it is international vs domestic.
April 19, 2006 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
a mere fraction of what it would cost to pay an American to do the job
It's not TOO far off from what an American would get - which is, according to this, about $13,000.
Now here's my question for the lefties: are Americans being paid less than minimum wage? I mean, we are talking about 24 hours a day for 9 months!
April 19, 2006 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's nothing. Western men have been outsourcing their 12-year-old-vagina needs to Thailand for, like, *years* now.
(Ewwww ... now I just *know* that I could google around and find some libertarian economist's argument against the age of consent. I hate these intuitions.)
April 21, 2006 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink