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Sisters Manjula Pandya, 30, Pushpa Pandya, 27, and Gauri Pandya, 29, gather with their children at Anand's Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Pushpa was the first successful surrogate at the clinic. Manjual and Gauri are Pushpa's sisters-in-law, and became involved after seeing her success. Dr. Nayna Patel, director of Anand's Kaival Hospital, currently has more than 25 women who have been implanted with embryos at her clinic. A few have already gone through the process once and are eager for a second go-round. While Patel claims many of the women do this for altruistic reasons, she acknowledges that money was the primary reason these women had queued up to be surrogates; without it, the list would be short, if not nonexistent. Payment usually ranges from about $2,800 to $5,600, a fortune in a country where annual per capita income hovers around $500.

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Sisters Manjula Pandya, 30, Pushpa Pandya, 27, and Gauri Pandya, 29, gather with their children at Anand's Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Pushpa was the first successful surrogate at the clinic. Manjual and Gauri are Pushpa's sisters-in-law, and became involved after seeing her success. Dr. Nayna Patel, director of Anand's Kaival Hospital, currently has more than 25 women who have been implanted with embryos at her clinic. A few have already gone through the process once and are eager for a second go-round. While Patel claims many of the women do this for altruistic reasons, she acknowledges that money was the primary reason these women had queued up to be surrogates; without it, the list would be short, if not nonexistent. Payment usually ranges from about $2,800 to $5,600, a fortune in a country where annual per capita income hovers around $500.