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Wombs for Rent

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  • A still-unnamed newborn is held by his biological mother during a birthday party held for him on his last day at the clinic before going home in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. (The party was also meant to celebrate the first birthday of the first surrogate baby at the clinic). The biological parents of the newborn, who wished not to be named, are from Hyderabad in southern India and had been trying for a baby for 15 years and suffered six miscarriages. The surrogate Daxa (no surname), 28, agreed to be a surrogate so she could build a better house for her family. Dr. Patel 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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  • Surrogate mothers Sofia Vohra, 35, and sisters Manjula Pandya, 30, and Gauri Pandya, 29 display their pregnant figures at Anand's Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • Dr. Nayna Patel, Kaival Hospital director, holds a birthday party for a still-unnamed newborn on his last day at the clinic before going home with his biological parents in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. (The party was also meant to celebrate the first birthday of the first surrogate baby at the clinic). The parents of the newborn, who wished not to be named, are from Hyderabad in southern India and had been trying for a baby for 15 years and suffered six miscarriages. The surrogate Daxa (no surname), 28, agreed to be a surrogate so she could build a better house for her family. Dr. Patel 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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  • Dr. Nayna Patel, holding baby, Kaival Hospital director, holds a birthday party for a still-unnamed newborn on his last day at the clinic before going home with his biological parents in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. The couple, who wished not to be named, is from Hyderabad in southern India and had been trying for a baby for 15 years and suffered six miscarriages. (Directly left of Dr. Patel) The surrogate Daxa (no surname), 28, agreed to be a surrogate so she could build a better house for her family. The party was also meant to celebrate the first birthday of the first surrogate baby at the clinic. The surrogate of that baby is Pushpa Pandya, 27, standing to the right of Dr. Patel.
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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, gets reassurance from Rubina Mondal, 30, a surrogate who recently gave birth for an American-Korean couple in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, gets reassurance from Rubina Mondal, 30, a surrogate who recently gave birth for an American-Korean couple in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30, spend time at Najima's home in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30 hold hands together in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30, spend time at Najima's home in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • Surrogate mothers Sofia Vohra, 35, and sisters Manjula Pandya, 30, and Gauri Pandya, 29 display their pregnant figures at Anand's Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30. spend time together in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30, spend time together in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_013.jpg
  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, and her surrogate Najima Vohra, 30, spend time together in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. Najima, a first time surrogate, wants to pay for her two children's education with the money she will make from this pregnancy. Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • Mina Barot, 26, the surrogate for a couple from California, visits Kaival Hospital for a check up in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel 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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  • Mina Barot, 26, the surrogate for a couple from California, visits Kaival Hospital for a check up in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel 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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_015.jpg
  • Mina Barot, 26, the surrogate for a couple from California, visits Kaival Hospital for a check up in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel 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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  • Dr. Nayna Patel does an ultrasound on Mina Barot, 26, the surrogate for a couple from California, at Kaival Hospita in Anand, India on April 13, 2007.  Dr. Patel 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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  • A visitor attends a birthday party for a still-unnamed newborn on his last day at the clinic before going home with his biological parents in Anand, India on April 12, 2007. The couple, who wished not to be named, is from Hyderabad in southern India and had been trying for a baby for 15 years and suffered six miscarriages. (Far left) The surrogate Daxa (no surname), 28, agreed to be a surrogate so she could build a better house for her family. Dr. Nayna Patel currently has more than 25 women who have been implanted with embryos at Anand's Kaival Hospital. 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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  • Dr. Uma Jayswal checks the vital signs of Hemlata Patel, 40, who flew in from Canada for IVF treatment in Anand, India on April 13, 2007. Kaival Hospital, provides all kinds of fertility treatments, and currently has more than 25 women who have been implanted with embryos as part of a controversial surrogacy program.
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  • American Jessica Ordenes, 40, gets hormone injections to help her eggs develop at Anand's Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 12, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel, the hospital director, 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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  • A technician works inside the lab at Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. 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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_022.jpg
  • A technician works inside the lab at Kaival Hospital in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. 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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  • Razia Vohra, 25, who is ten weeks pregnant with a Korean-American couple's second baby, rests in her home with her other children in Anand, India on April 14, 2007.  Dr. Nayna Patel 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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  • Rubina Mondal, 30, checks on fellow surrogate Razia Vohra, 25,  who is ten weeks pregnant with Karen and Thomas's (last name withheld) second baby in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Rubina had the Korean-American couple's first baby in February and decided to become a surrogate because her eldest son has a heart problem that needs expensive medical care. She now has a job at the clinic as a counsellor and advisor to the surrogates. Dr. Nayna Patel 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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  • Rubina Mondal, 30, checks on fellow surrogate Razia Vohra, 25,  who is ten weeks pregnant with Karen and Thomas's (last name withheld) second baby in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Rubina had the Korean-American couple's first baby in February and decided to become a surrogate because her eldest son has a heart problem that needs expensive medical care. She now has a job at the clinic as a counsellor and advisor to the surrogates. Dr. Nayna Patel 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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  • Rubina Mondal, 30, holds a photo of Brady, who she gave birth to two months earlier in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Rubina had the Korean-American couple's first baby in February and decided to become a surrogate because her eldest son has a heart problem that needs expensive medical care. She now has a job at the clinic as a counsellor and advisor to the surrogates. Dr. Nayna Patel 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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_028.jpg
  • Rubina Mondal, 30, checks on fellow surrogate Razia Vohra, 25,  who is ten weeks pregnant with Karen and Thomas's (last name withheld) second baby in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Rubina had the Korean-American couple's first baby in February and decided to become a surrogate because her eldest son has a heart problem that needs expensive medical care. She now has a job at the clinic as a counsellor and advisor to the surrogates. Dr. Nayna Patel 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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_027.jpg
  • Sisters Manjula Pandya, 30, Pushpa Pandya, 27, and Gauri Pandya, 29, gather with their children respectively Raj Pandya, 1, and Karan Pandya, 6, 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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  • A festival procession proceeds down the street in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Once famous as the milk capital of India, home to the country's most successful dairy farmer cooperative, the city is now known for Dr. Nayna Patel's controversial surrogacy program.
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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.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_030.jpg
  • A festival procession proceeds down the street in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Once famous as the milk capital of India, home to the country's most successful dairy farmer cooperative, the city is now known for Dr. Nayna Patel's controversial surrogacy program.
    070415_sinclair_surrogates_033.jpg
  • Vendors sell their produce in the vegetable market in Anand, India on April 14, 2007. Once famous as the milk capital of India, home to the country's most successful dairy farmer cooperative, the city is now known for Dr. Nayna Patel's controversial surrogacy program.
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