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A journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization.

Google Baby is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Doron, an Israeli entrepreneur with a high tech background proposes a new service - Baby production. The baby producer (as he introduces himself) provides customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as way to lower prices. The preferred genetic material is selected by the clients and the rest is left in the hands of the producer: Sperm and eggs are purchased on-line and multiple embryos are produced and frozen. Packed in liquid nitrogen only the embryos that fit the customers preferences are shipped by air to India - where they are implanted into the wombs of local surrogates. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies. Today, technology has turned 'making a baby' into an act independent of sex. And globalization is making it affordable.—Anonymous

Chanting 'Jai Shri Krishna' Anand-based Dr. Naina Patel delivers a baby in her clinic. While this may seem the norm in India, the babies being delivered here are unique - an East Indian woman could give birth to a Caucasian Blonde, blue-eyed baby, mainly due to new technology that has taken sexual intercourse out of the act of 'making babies'. Doron runs this business from Tel-Aviv, Israel, and offers his clients, some of whom are unable to have babies and/or have had miscarriages, the option of selecting genetic material from the Internet on their personal computers. Embryos/eggs and sperm are produced, frozen, packaged, and shipped to Patel's clinic where they are implanted in wombs of surrogate mothers. While this procedure has been common in Israel and America, where it could cost up to $140,000, and is considered acceptable, however, Indian women have to make up a variety of excuses as this practice is taboo and may well stigmatize them as prostitutes apart from risking their lives as well as exposing their bodies to cancer. Most come forward, often with spousal consent, to take part in this new form of outsourcing, to better their lifestyles, for just a fraction of a cost by their American counterparts. All it takes now to make babies is a credit card - instructions are available on YouTube.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Google Baby is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization.

Doron, an Israeli entrepreneur with a high tech background proposes a new service - Pregnancy producing. The pregnancy producer (as he introduces himself) provides customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as a way to lower prices. The preferred genetic material is selected by the clients from their computer: sperm and eggs are purchased on-line and multiple embryos are produced, frozen, packed and shipped by air to India - where they are implanted into the wombs of local surrogates. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies.

Today, technology has turned 'making a baby' into an act independent of sex. And globalization is making it affordable. All one needs is a credit card. Instructions can be found on YouTube.