Reproductive and sexual education are major issues in India. There are countless NGO’s and NPO’s that devote their whole lives to teaching women about their reproductive rights as well as birth control pills and other forms of contraceptives. Do these surrogate programs send mixed messages? One minute we tell these mothers to keep their families small, and encourage them to embrace their sexual rights, and the next minute we are telling them that children are a “good” to be exported.

The idea of surrogacy is very controversial and not one I wish to debate through this entry. Simply wanted to see if there is a mixed message being given to Indian women about their reproductive rights.