{"id":240,"date":"2007-12-17T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2007\/12\/17\/more-exploitation-of-the-third-world\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:53:30","slug":"more-exploitation-of-the-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/more-exploitation-of-the-third-world\/","title":{"rendered":"More Exploitation of The &#8216;Third World&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>She now has 45 surrogate mothers on her books, mostly impoverished women from nearby villages. Twenty-seven of them are currently pregnant, and each will be paid between $5000 and $7000 \u2014 the equivalent to upwards of 10 years&#8217; salary for rural Indians. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>My fear is that rich foreign women are unwilling to go through the discomfort of child birthing, so instead, they&#8217;re paying Indian&#8217;s to do it for them (after reading the full article, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s really the case). It seems like the time that a baby spends inside the body of its mother would be very important to its spiritual development. Let&#8217;s not destroy our future generations if we don&#8217;t really have to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071221021202\/http:\/\/lifestyle.msn.com\/mindbodyandsoul\/womenintheworld\/articlemc.aspx?cp-documentid=5835633&amp;GT1=10715\">http:\/\/lifestyle.msn.com\/mindbodyandsoul\/womenintheworld\/articlemc.aspx?cp-documentid=5835633&gt;1=10715<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/politics\/news\/a638\/surrogate-mothers-india\/<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: My fears are quelled: <i>&#8220;I accept patients who have an established infertility problem,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had some women ask to do surrogacy because they don&#8217;t want to give up work for a pregnancy, but I turned them down flat.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She now has 45 surrogate mothers on her books, mostly impoverished women from nearby villages. Twenty-seven of them are currently pregnant, and each will be paid between $5000 and $7000 \u2014 the equivalent to upwards of 10 years&#8217; salary for rural Indians. My fear is that rich foreign women are unwilling to go through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moods","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}