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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Outsourcing Surrogacy [Watch (HLS stream): Outsourcing Surrogacy](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iUUpW4Su.m3u8) (16:48)  _Published 2015-08-29. Outsourcing Surrogacy_ --- Jul 28, 2023 4:23 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Vatican Calls Gender-Affirming Surgery, Surrogacy a Threat to Human Dignity in New Document](/video/8ey8hy0d/) ### Vatican Calls Gender-Affirming Surgery, Surrogacy a Threat to Human Dignity in New Document [Thousands Joined Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade in the Wake of Uproar Over Surrogacy](/video/BQMFO2Nf/) ### Thousands Joined Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade in the Wake of Uproar Over Surrogacy [The Cost of Outsourcing Your Chores MONEY](/video/yDF9j4F3/) ### The Cost of Outsourcing Your Chores MONEY --- ## Transcript He got married. But then again, that's the thing. Yes, I know, I know. My life I belong. Whatever. We help match up a surrogate with the infertile couple, do the IVF procedure over here. Once the surrogate gets pregnant, we take care of her for nine months. She stays in the clinic or the surrogate house. So in one place, everything right from starting the infertility treatment to the baby is delivered and the couple takes the baby back and we have delivered close to 290 surrogates so far. Since 2005, I've started. You can call this renting a room or selling a room. I would rather say donating a room for nine months and compensation for a child. I think whatever the couple does, they are never going to monetarily compensate a surrogate. It is impossible for what she has that. It's been five years now since the first miscarriage. I look at my friend's children growing up. They are five, six, seven years old. So there is like in a sometimes an immediate reflection out of it. So from the start I went through a miscarriage, three insemination to IVF, all unsuccessful. And now I realized my body can't do it. I remember here reaching the fifth month and her stomach was round and beautiful. And no. I was happy and I was ecstatic. Never will we have consider that my water would break. The for me to ask Melissa to keep trying is entering the threshold of abusing Melissa's body. So we decided to do an egg donor and it's going to be my sperm and it's going to be another woman's egg. And someone else wouldn't. This is the first one that we didn't really like it. She was a second shoe. The third one. Not a choice. Not a choice. And we chose her. I like the hood. Spraying her smile. Exactly. It's a surreal process. You choose your son or daughter by looks. By looks, by choosing a picture. I don't know if there is going to be some sort of continuous relationship with this lady or not. Probably not. Probably not. Maybe take many paths that it's noted here or take two to build. Do you really like your jacket out? Me Then I guess you a little bit out or is Nina always been on some of the air? Give me the look in the day you miss me, that's empty. Your entire which is mechanized. The illegal You made me number television. You. I have so many concerns. The surrogate mother. How do I know that I She's not going to have sex with her husband for a few days after they transfer the embryos. How do I know eventually that the babies are worth? I love Drive safely home. I'm flying to India tonight without Melissa, which I find very interesting, to go somewhere without your wife to make babies. On the other hand, I take 100% responsibility. For the he With that, keep in mind that. Hello, how are you, Dr. Patel? Finally, finally you get. To meet you, Dr. Patel. I want to make. Sure that. The egg donor is the one that we chose. Yes, he told me. Yes, I am ready for dishes. Very nice. Yes. She looks amazing. And very cute. She the one, right? Yes. Okay, good. I really, really think that you are doing an amazing thing. I really do. Really. It's a it's a beautiful story by only. I'll see you tomorrow at 1030. Okay? Okay. Thank you so much. Pleasure to meet you. Thank you. Samia, we get a this kind of love. And make with that. She was very, very nice going over the whole process. Very pleasant person. Going to meet with surrogate mothers in the slums. Actually, yes, though most of them live on premises and yes, she's going to stay there during the whole nine months. Yeah, guys stay there. I'm happy. Oh. This is the area where some of my surrogates come from. These are her children and that has. Had my name in metallic I that you age. I mean, they must've known that I'm from my name. Exactly. Video They'll take you when they may. The infants. Yeah, well, they're not like that with this family. She's saying that she had absolutely nothing. This is a good house, as far as the saying goes, thing in India. You know, there are so many you as a start criticizing. But why don't they come and help such people? They should come to the slum everyday and help the people if they want to help, you know, and don't blame the surrogate that she's trying to sell her body. There's competitive prostitution out of the boards, out of which they don't know anything and they're being exploited. The money is being used like a machine for surrogacy. It's not something that they need. They should not be ashamed of what they do. They should be proud of what they're doing. We have come out in the open rather than get scared of this society and do it behind closed doors, not letting anyone know hush hush. We have come out in the open and said, Yes, we do surrogacy. These are the surrogate. They are getting pressure babies for foreign couples. She could not have earned this kind of money. If you are talking about 300,000, ₹400,000, even if she works 24 over seven throughout her life, in the beginning this start for money, even in the end, money is a criteria all said and done. The world is like that, you know. But she has that feeling, the positive attitude in her that, look, I am going to be of some use to somebody. Have invested so. You need the central to bring the in intent. To proceed to this and this is. Why we have this need is to us for surrogacy program. Her name is Jack Ruby. She's was married, but she's now divorced. She is titular 11, eight and five. So she's staying by herself with her own children and she's supporting them. I again, would like to thank her and I respect very much the service that she is performing. And I would like her to know that that's a blessing that we can interaction. Then it would be done was provided the money in the bank when they get away. I thank you very much and thank you. Now, the other thing we became supposed to explain is regarding the monetary aspect of the world, right? A surrogate for tool for delivering a child successfully to you will receive $7,500, 75% of majority of dishonesty received after delivery. So this is for your understanding. Thank you. And this is the surrogate here. And you kind of got to be me locally. Be very merry. Do not like to be water to you. So could you be me not quite obese. Okay, But my neighbor like you made him a chocolate. Or I could come. I can walk. He's Illumina May is a coconut out you get me could get my Can we raise a cupcake can Malik or this one local value medical baloney miracle clinical you see let me what can banana do Merry Merry Quixote You banana. Jesse Ventura and this kind of. I found. A lot. Of, like, real. Bruises. They look good. This is amazing. This is also I thought that. This is also. One very good. So basically all three are good. Okay. Okay. So I will see you, I think, in nine months. No difference in eight months. Okay. You work for me? Yes, I hope so. Thank you very much for everything. Okay. We're going to be in touch via email and I love you. Thank you so. So this is the email that we've got yesterday morning around 8 a.m.. Subject is urgent. Dear Melissa. Hello, Geeta The surrogate mother has developed abdominal pain. Scan shows sudden liver problem. So we will induce her for abortion of this baby. Doctor Mina Patel. Because we must have we Hopefully that's. All just about for now. You which is like an extra stab in my heart because I was almost five so around this time is when you know my workbook. So it's like damn sorry. One thing is for sure, Geeta is a person, she's an individual and she matters. So if it is a matter of her life, she has to terminate, you know? I mean, she's helping us. We don't want to hurt her in the process. So I think you make a great that not just I just want it to be it makes to one of us, even if it has his temperament. There are questions in life. Let's take the question, if the boat is sinking, whom would you save first, your father or your mother? This kind of question that it's just more comfortable not to deal with them, Which one is more important to you, your woman, your partner, or your family? Expansion? For me, as harsh as it sounds, if I have to choose your woman or your children and choose children, creation. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Outsourcing Surrogacy","description":"Outsourcing Surrogacy","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iUUpW4Su/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-29T18:45:34.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iUUpW4Su.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/iUUpW4Su/","duration":"PT16M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/iUUpW4Su/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```