Good post and insight.

Unable to bear children, years ago we considered all the options including adoption and surrogacy. It all sounds good in theory, but has gotten so complicated what with the birth parents changing their minds about giving up their babies and taking them away from the adoptive parents sometimes years later, and all the things you hear about babies not being able to bond with their adoptive parents and so on. Surrogates in India seems to me the same thinking that drove Americans to foreign adoption - fewer hoops to jump through and more control over the situation, but this way they get their white baby that looks like them with no chance of the mother wanting to keep it or holding them up for more money. Not that I agree with it, and I'm sure something will come up in a few years to make people give up doing it and move on to some new exploitation.

I saw the show, too, and found it very troubling. Not the issue of surrogacy in general, but the business of renting out the wombs of poor Indian women to American couples seems or could be abusive. There are very good surrogacy programs in the United States. But I wish infertile couples would consider adoption more seriously, when there are so many children in need of a loving home.

The more I hear about Oprah, the more I realize her causes are
sketchy and poorly researched. I think she has become somewhat
of a megalomaniac.

interesting perspective. I do think people should be more concerned with adopting than having their own child.

Risky business indeed. For some, only your own
biological child will do and if they have enough money
they can do it. But why India? There are poor women
in this country who would do it.