Google Baby


59min, Israel, 2009

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Shocking Google Baby shows how babies are manufactured according to custom specifications. Qualified genes are canned in Israel and the United States, and the embryos are flown to India to be placed into rented wombs. A major part is played by doctor Nayna Patel, who runs a rent-a-womb clinic in Gujarati, India, home of the surrogate mothers. Womb renting is indeed very profitable, but also introduces major health risks. The intermediate calls himself “the baby producer”. In order to work around obvious legislative obstacles and keep the costs down, manufacturing babies takes place in different countries.
 
Clientele is both foreign and Indian. Like any business nowadays, commercial baby production is advertised over the internet to anyone interested. But when forced to hand over one's newborn, people are reminded that our biological, primary emotions cannot be outsourced.

Anna Pesonen | Translation by Jon Grönvall
 
 

Format: Video
Photography: Ackerman Uri
Editor: Rabiner Tal
Production: Brand Frank Zippi, Frank Zvi
Sun 31.1.2010
20:00
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