You knew India offered outsourcing for customer service jobs and information technology gigs, but did you know India's fertile women have been outsourcing their wombs to carry the biological children of richer nations? The NY Times reported on this trend a few months ago, and the phenomenon now has its first real jaw-dropping dilemma. A baby is stranded at a hospital in Jaipur because her biological mother no longer wants her, and her biological father cannot, by law, adopt her. A Japanese couple had arranged for an Indian surrogate to carry their baby, but the wife then divorced her husband and renounced her interest in motherhood. The child was born, the surrogate mother left the hospital to resume her normal life, and a distraught Japanese grandma came to care for her while everyone scratches their heads and tries to figure out who is going to raise the now-11-days-old infant.
