Thursday, June 17, 2010
Letter to the editor
Surrogacy – a shameful, immoral and unethical exploitation of India’s poor women
India should be ashamed. Congress President Sonia Gandhi should be ashamed. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should be ashamed. Under their watch India is being dragged into a unimaginably hotchpotch world of unbridled libertarian and unethical perverse human relations; without any public becoming aware or wiser to such transformation of an India under some diabolical design working behind the scene, bent on destroying India that we love and cherish. Instead of removing poverty and exploitation of women, the state wears the dubious garb of helping avoid the ‘exploitation of the surrogates and infertile couples and vice versa’. It is a pity that otherwise the most garrulous women’s organisations have yet to cotton on to the open exploitation of poor women and their dignity. Instead of addressing the very practice of surrogacy as another form of prostitution, the Congress government is foolhardily trying to ‘manage’ the traffic of a shameful and exploitative new form of slavery of womenfolk. Surrogate mothers are shamed in their communities and any amount of monetary compensation cannot bring their sense of dignity and morality.
Government should stop any such legislation giving backhanded legitimacy to this abominable form of human degradation. Let mothers of India be proud of their progeny and do not offer their wombs to immoral and exploitation of their ‘children’. Was it not enough that Mother India herself was colonized and exploited for centuries? Is our freedom to come to such piecemeal re-colonization and exploitation with our thoughtless leaders hardly having the foggiest idea of where they are dragging their nation to.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
