Asian surrogacy heartache.A LEADING Midland fertility doctor has revealed there are only two suitable egg donors capable of being surrogate mums for childless Asian couples in the whole of Britain. Jackson Kirkman Kirk´man n. 1. A clergyman or officer in a kirk. 2. A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion. Brown, pictured, at Birmingham Women's Hospital, says there is an acute shortage of Asian egg and sperm donors. And a new radio investigation has revealed the shortage is fuelling a booming trade in reproductive tourism in India India is one of the popular tourist destinations in Asia. Bounded by the Himalayan ranges in the north, and surrounded on three sides by water (the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean), with a long history and diverse culture, India offers a wide array of places to . The report, Baby Tourism, looks at how the incidence of surrogacy surrogacy See Gestational surrogacy. in Indian clinics has in some cases soared by 40 per cent in the past year. Mr Kirkman Brown told the programme: "The likelihood of an Asian couple immediately receiving either donor sperm or donor egg is very low. "In the whole of the UK there are only two Asian donors that we are aware of that match onto the general Asian background." CAPTION(S): Baby Tourism is on the BBC Asian Network tomorrow at 6.30pm. |
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