Whose baby is it, anyway! Does it really matter?

[prasad1]

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40-year-old Ramila and her husband, Suresh, welcomed their bundle of joy a few months ago after rounds of infertility treatment. The couple — who had been childless for long — was thrilled to be parents and so were the relatives who showered the child with their blessings. However, what Ramila and her husband didn’t tell their family is that the child born to them is not genetically theirs. In fact, it was the miracle of embryo donation that helped Ramila get pregnant. This means the egg and sperm did not come from Ramila and her husband but were donated by anonymous female and male donors.


Another couple in their late 40s opted for embryo donation after losing their only child to cancer. Nine months later, they became the proud parents of a baby girl. Their family still thinks it is a result of infertility treatment.


More and more infertile couples in the city are going for embryo donation not only to know the joy of parenthood but also to experience motherhood — for the woman.


In embryo donation, a sperm and an egg from different donors is taken and fertilised through IVF. This fertilised egg is then placed in the uterus of a woman undergoing infertility treatment who then delivers the baby.

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There are medical, social, and even legal implications. In India where the caste plays such an important role even after independence, it would be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

[tks]

The one that raises the baby becomes for practical purposes its father/mother.
In the USA there are lesbian couples that get pregnant with even embryos and parents both tend to be of same gender.

Some years ago I met a woman in plane who had a nice family in east coast - she was sitting next to me and had a fairly senior executive role in the defense industry. When she showed her family picture with kids playing in the backyard and all it seemed all too natural except that her 'wife' was a woman. She did not go into detail but her partner had fertility issues requiring embryos to be used. She and her partner felt they are the parents raising the kids who seemed to grow up in suburbs like any other family seemingly..

So world is stranger than what we can possibly even imagine.

 

[renuka]

Dear Prasad ji,

It only matters when we have a choice!

When there is no choice..nothing really matters.

The couple just wanted an offspring and nothing else mattered.

A man who is visually challenged sometimes wishes he has sight..it does not matter to him if his eyes are blue or green or brown or black..as long he can see.

 

[krish44]

collecting sperms of the brainy with good looks[ brahmins?] from IIt and premier institutions by fertility clinics for impregnating eggs is becoming popular. boys do not mind donating for easy money. also renting a womb has become fashionable amongst the elite . many times since many eggs are used at a time some end up with twins. I have a relation carrying twins after several years of marriage . success rate in these methods of conception is not high. there are a lot of heartbreaks and miscarriages. it is a long drawn out process and quite expensive. it might be easier to adopt a kid than undergoing this torture