India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood

MUMBAI — Yonatan Gher and his partner, who are Israeli, plan eventually to tell their child about being made in India, in the womb of a stranger, with the egg of a Mumbai housewife they picked from an Internet lineup.
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Women like these at a clinic in Anand can earn much more as surrogate mothers than at normal jobs.
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J. Adam Huggins for The International Herald Tribune

Yonatan Gher, an Israeli, made his first trip to Mumbai with his partner in January to visit a fertility clinic.

The embryo was...