I’m thinking of having a child, and having it labeled, “Made in India.

I don’t know if you heard about it, but reproductive outsourcing is a rapidly expanding enterprise in India.

We are all used to buying a cell phone, a computer or for that matter any electronic device and when we have a problem with it we call an 800 number and talk to India.

It doesn’t matter where the product was made or bought; the solution to any issue with the electronic device is in India.

So I thought I would get a baby from India.

And why not, all other forms of outsourcing are already there, in fact the outsourcing business is so big they already have to pay more for their current skilled workers, that India is outsourcing its outsourcing to developing countries before their clients do so, so they don’t loose the base of their current outsourcing business.

Reproductive outsourcing is new in India and rapidly expanding.  Commercial surrogacy was legalized in India in 2002.

I really don’t want another child, but it seems as though I can pick one up for about $25,000 and that includes the cost of the medical procedure, air tickets and hotels for two trips to India, one for the fertilization and a second to collect the baby.

There are plenty of reasons to get a baby from India, rather than a Madras jacket.  First of all Indian women are for the most part free of vices, like alcohol smoking and drugs.  Secondly, I can pick the profile of my egg donor, you know like one with a high education level.

I don’t have to worry about the mother trying to claim the baby because they sign away all their rights to the child.  The surrogate mother provides a womb for an embryo formed from the sperm and egg of the parent or parents.  It is only the name of the genetic parents that appear on the birth certificate.

It seems to me that it could be quite a good investment, for I can amortize the cost over a five to 10 year period and dozens of electronic devices.  By then the child will be old enough to answer and solve all the questions I might have for my cell phone, computer, TV set, car, cameras, surround sound, and i-pods and I will never have to talk to India again.