India's surrogate mothers start baby tourism boom

By Kate Foster
DOZENS of British couples a year are travelling to India to pay women to act as surrogate mothers as part of a booming industry in 'fertility tourism'.
Medical experts yesterday revealed at least two couples every month are travelling from the UK to clinics in India where local women can earn up to 16 times their annual wage to have babies for comparatively wealthy foreigners.

One in six couples
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suffers from infertility and many women have fertility problems that mean they cannot have babies of their own.

Experts yesterday revealed dozens of fertility clinics have sprung up in...