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Medical Director, Akanksha Infertility Clinic, India - Dr Nayna Patel

Dr Nayna Patel is in the business of producing surrogate babies to order, but is the practice exploitative or a positive public service?

In India, producing surrogate babies is a booming business. Reproductive technology allows childless, wealthy couples to hire impoverished Indian women as surrogate mothers - pregnancy and childbirth have become commercial transactions. Hardtalk speaks to Dr Nayna Patel, a pioneer in the field. Her clinic has been recruiting surrogates and delivering babies to order for a decade. Is this 21st Century way of making babies irresponsible and exploitative, or a positive public service?

23 minutes

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Mon 18 Nov 2013 20:06GMT

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