PATH OF INDIA -Article about Dr. Samit Sekhar in Veja

Brazilian couples cross the world to engage in Indian surrogacy clinics. It’s cool, cheaper and almost no ties with alternative mothers
THAIS-BOTELHO

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How far can one go to get to have a child ? Who have never experienced the feeling of motherhood consumer or frustrated paternity can hardly respond accurately. For those who live or have lived it, the answer is probably : even the most distant places. Including travel to India, signing a contract with an unknown woman who undertakes to produce his son pass through the procedures of artificial fertilization, pregnancy track the distance and return to the country in the end of it. The dreaming little baby on your lap is the reward of almost epic process.

The practice of surrogacy is regulated in India since 2002. Because of the high demand for homosexual couples, singles and customers from countries such as France or England, where it is forbidden in India has become the main destination for reproductive tourism in the world. A path that Brazilian couples are beginning to discover. According to the Embassy of Brazil in India, fifteen babies were generated mothers rent for Indian nationals this year. The Israeli doctor Dror Yona and Santa Catarina psycho Tanya are part of this group. Returned from New Delhi in September with three young daughters in his arms.Children were generated by two women.

Tanya already had two children from his first marriage, and with Dror, faced an abortion, a tubal pregnancy and three years of trying IVF. Earlier this year, she and her husband heard of Indian bellies. Thrilled, requested the entry visa to India the next day.

The Suri and Maya twins were born on September 4, and Noah, on the 7th. ” We had a strange feeling to recebêlas. It seemed they were not ours. The feelings of being parents came days later when we went to the hotel with them, “says the father. Two pregnancies cost $100,000. There are in India about 1500 clinics in this type of process. The great incentive to the study of medicine, the flexible legal environment and local demand (for boys ) favor the activity. Packages start at $ 20,000, and that price includes four attempts at in vitro fertilization, and implantation of the embryo, formed by genetic material of biological parents or ovum from a woman not involved in the womb rental ; stay delivery and payment of the pregnant woman ; legal assistance for the withdrawal of certificates of birth and leaving the country. Apart from two seasons in a hotel – the first, for the removal of semen and ova, and the second, at birth. “The Indian doctor said we could attend the birth, but I refused.
I have heart problem and know fcaria very moved by the scene, “says the farmer Ivonete heifer of Mato Grosso, which earned her daughter, Estela, in April. precisely due to cardiac weakness, Ivonete have a risky pregnancy and did not want to ” spend five years in a row” of adoption. she and her husband, Peter, father of three children from his first marriage, also floated to a surrogate in Brazil, but gave up. Here, the practice is allowed only if the mother is a relative or friend of the couple and not receive money for it. other factors influence the decision Ivonete : ” With a mother from a place far, there is no risk of interference in the creation of the stele.” the fear that the “mother by proxy ” develop a loving relationship with the child is one of the main reasons why couples to make their way to India. Furthermore, the cost is at least one third practiced in the United States.
” Brazilians ask sightseeing tips and want to know if women who sold the eggs for them are beautiful.
For infertile women, we offer the possibility of buying eggs, “says obstetrician Samit Sekhar, who runs a clinic in Hyderabad twenty Brazilian couples who attended this year alone.
“We presented photos of the donors, and parents choose those that have the color of the skin, the eyes and the physical characteristics they prefer,” adds Sekhar.
The largest and best known branch clinic in India belongs to the medical Nayna Patel. Currently, it houses about 100 surrogate mothers. Women spend the nine months of pregnancy living there, can only see her husband in fns week, are forbidden to have sex and get $ 8,000 for the work. Currently, the clinic receives an average of five contacts per month of Brazilian families.
” We have first-world medicine here. critics say that women earn very little. However, with that money, they can buy a house, pay for private school children and increase much, the family income, “says the doctor. fm in 2012, there was a turnaround in the sector. A guideline of the Ministry of the Interior established that no longer can hire the bellies of homosexual, heterosexual couples rent with less than two years of married and single people. “I had triplets and, because of this change, I can hardly get them out of the country. I even heard that they were going to adopt, “says Jairo webmaster Carter, who is single.
It’s hard to find a Brazilian doctor who chancele practice. “India is not a model of excellence in public health. There is risk to newborns, “says Artur dzik, director of the Brazilian Society of Human Reproduction. ” Do not know how fertilization procedures are operated,” AFRMA eduardo motta, clinic Huntington Reproductive Medicine. ethical and existential discomfort before a practice known to humankind there also weighs only a few decades. ” I would not say that visiting an Indian clinic is gay and who is no stranger signing. It is an emotional epiphany, only rewarded when we see the baby, ” says massage therapist Dulcilene Riopel, mother Sofa, 5 months.