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The word ‘Outsourcing’ simply means “acquiring a product or service rather than producing it yourself”. The boom in outsourcing in India in various fields is mainly on principle of availability of wide labour pool for relatively low rate. Though Medical transcription, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) are most popular domains in this field, there is no dearth of demand and supply for ‘outsourced surrogacy’. ‘Outsourced surrogacy’ otherwise known as ‘Commercial Surrogacy’ or ‘International surrogacy’ is the phenomenon of ‘renting a womb’. India, mainly for its low cost factor, is a much favoured destination for hiring wombs.

The industry is so well organised and systemised that there is an uprise in the number of clinics providing assisted reproductive technologies. The foreign parties desiring to have a baby through surrogacy are commonly referred as commissioning parties. The commissioning parties would get in touch with the Clinics, who would arrange a suitable surrogate carrier. The clinics choose the carrier through what is almost like a ‘fertility reality show’ where various candidates with required qualifications (as age between 18 and 40, at least one child of their own, good medical condition) are shortlisted. The surrogate candidate is impregnated through the process of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) of sperm and egg of commissioning parties....

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