Surrogarte mothers

This weeks we've been working on cultural diversity. We read an article of surrogate mothers in India and the task is to answer the questions below:

1. What does "reproductive tourism" mean?
2. What issues may cause an American Woman to seek an Indian surrogate?
3. What risks and benefits exist for the surrogate mothers in India?
4. What risks and benefits exist for the woman who hire a surrogate?
5. Do you agree with the people who believe that the Indian women are being exploited? Why or Why not?

1. Reproductive tourism means to travel (in this case to India) in search of a surrogate. That means, a couple looking for someone to carry their baby. It's called tourism because you have to travel, like vacations, only that you come back with a child
2. First of all, the mother needs a real sickness or problem to have a baby, if not she wont be accepted. And the second reason would be money, in India the treatment is much more cheaper.
3. One of the risk is that the surrogate mother refuses to give the baby, and the other one is that Indian surrogate mothers become exploited. The benefit is that the money the surrogate earns is enough to educate her childs, feed a home and buy a good house.
4.  The main risk is that you don´t know how is the mother taking care of the baby, her health conditions, etc. But the reward is big, a couple that can't have babies has the chance to.
5. No, surrogate mothers have a chance to win enough money to take care of their own kids, the amount they earn is enough to begin a new life. No one is forcing them to take that decision.