Gay couple have twins!

[Rogie]

Interesting times we live in. Britain's Sunday Telegraph's front page today told us all about 'The UKP 25,000 (US$ 40,000) baby trade'. An investigation by reporter Shekhar Bhatia revealed how more and more Britons are paying Indians to become surrogate mothers.

 

What elevated this over and above what we might have expected to read was how some gay couples in Britain and other countries have used this route to achieve fatherhood.

 

The first link at the bottom is the overall article from which I have made selective quotes. The second link deals solely with the case of the two British gay men mentioned in the quote, Stephen Hill and Johnathon Busher. I haven't quoted form the second one as it really needs to be read in its entirety to get a flavour of the ups and downs these guys have experienced.

 

There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents.

 

Couples and single people are paying an average of £25,000 a time to have children, getting around rules in the UK which make commercial surrogacy illegal.

 

One clinic in New Delhi, The Birthplace of Joy, said that their patients were “100 per cent foreign” and estimated that as many as half of them were homosexual couples wanting to become parents.

 

At another clinic in New Delhi, Dr Shivani Gour, the director of Surrogacy Centre India, said her clients are overwhelmingly middle class, listing “IT professionals, Home Office staff, doctors from the NHS, people from multinationals, bankers, businessmen”. In March her clinic was responsible for 26 surrogate babies, one of whom went to Britain, eight to the US, four to Australia and the others to countries including Canada, Japan and Spain. In other months the British figure has been much higher.

 

“Gay people are just so keen and so desperate to have a family,” she said. “Many of the people say that as soon as they realised they were gay, the saddest thing was that they knew they would never have children.”

 

Among her British patients are Stephen Hill, who earlier this month became father to twins Alex and Amelia, and is waiting in New Delhi to be reunited with his civil partner Johnathon Busher, at their home in the West Midlands. They chose the egg donor for their twins, and the babies were carried by another woman, before Mr Hill and Mr Busher were able to meet them for the first time.

 

“I was overwhelmed,” said Mr Busher. “I burst out crying like a baby myself and fell apart, and I couldn’t stop crying. We both found it very hard to keep it together and then Stephen cried and cried.”

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9292343/Revealed-how-more-and-more-Britons-are-paying-Indian-women-to-become-surrogate-mothers.html

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9292553/Indian-surrogacy-industry-we-could-never-have-imagined-wed-be-parents.html

[Guest thaiworthy]

Bravo! Where there's a will, there's a way!

[Rogie]

I agree.

 

I thought it was very brave of them to tell their story.

[Guest snapshot]

One of my New Year Resolutions is to make friends with a pair of Asian lesbians. 

[Guest Jovianmoon]

One of my New Year Resolutions is to make friends with a pair of Asian lesbians. 

 

So you can put them on your mantelpiece and then post on Gaythailand about how exclusive they were?

 

Seriously, WTF?