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Commercial surrogacy is legalized in India as part of a strategy to promote medical tourism.

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It is estimated that 25,000 children have been born to Southeast Asian women hired as surrogates in India. The babies are then handed off to contract parents–half of whom come from the West, with a significant number from the United States.

Largely unregulated, the trend has raised great concern over the identification and treatment of Southeast Asian surrogate mothers, who often live in exploitative and horrific conditions for most of their pregnancy. Fees for surrogacy in India are 20%-30% the cost of surrogacy in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.