Intelligent Discontent

• Written by: PogieDecember 31st, 2007
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Economy, Health Care, Social Issues
• Rating:
  (No Ratings Yet)
  
   Loading ...

After a weekend of dealing with outsourced technical support from Sony and customer service from XM Radio, I thought that outsourcing couldn’t get any more ridiculous until I read this article from CNN about outsourced childbirth:

But if commercial surrogacy keeps growing, some fear it could change from a medical necessity for infertile women to a convenience for the rich.

“You can picture the wealthy couples of the West deciding that pregnancy is just not worth the trouble anymore and the whole industry will be farmed out,” said Lantos.

Or, Lantos said, competition among clinics could lead to compromised safety measures and “the clinic across the street offers it for 20 percent less and one in Bangladesh undercuts that and pretty soon conditions get bad.”

We’re getting closer to science fiction every day.