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HARDtalk: Dr. Nayna Patel

Dr Nayna Patel

18/11/2013 GMT

Dr. Nayna Patel

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Dr. Nayna Patel

Stephen Sackur meets Dr. Nayna Patel, Medical Director at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic.

In India, Dr. Nayna Patel's clinic is hiring impoverished women as surrogates to deliver babies to order. Is this way of making babies exploitative, or a positive public service?

In India, producing surrogate babies is a booming business. Reproductive technology allows childless, wealthy couples to hire impoverished Indian women as surrogate mothers - pregnancy and childbirth have become commercial transactions. HARDtalk speaks to Dr Nayna Patel, a pioneer in the field. Her clinic has been recruiting surrogates and delivering babies to order for a decade. Is this 21st century way of making babies irresponsible and exploitative, or a positive public service?

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