Constant Opinions

A lot of things have been outsourced over these past several years. My oldest sister lost a programming job to outsourcing, so you can’t argue to me that it’s only basic jobs such as customer service being sent outside the country. Jobs in the computer and engineering fields are being outsourced regularly.

So are jobs that I really don’t think should be outsourced, or only outsourced cautiously, such as medical transcription. I speak as a former medical transcriptionist in this case. HIPAA requires extreme care with patient information, but when you send dictation outside the country, what protects the information over there? I don’t like it in that case.

I am not entirely against outsourcing. I do like to think that it is helping to raise the standard of living in countries less fortunate than the United States. I merely expect equal quality of results when it happens, which doesn’t happen as much as one might like.

But I must say the trend of using surrogate mothers in India is one I hadn’t thought of. Once again, nothing wrong with it, just interesting. It’s a godsend to poor women there with few other options to earn a good living… well, for that region, an amazing living. $3000-6000 paid to the surrogate mother in a country where $500 is the annual per capita.

The arguement comes around exploitation. Honestly, I don’t see how much of a problem exploitation is unless it’s exploitation anytime you use a surrogate mother. So long as she is given proper care and preparation to give up that baby, it is something she chooses to do and is well paid for.

It’s certainly better for her than many of the other options out there for poor women to earn money.

The egg does not usually come from the surrogate mother. In no way is the child genetically hers in most cases.

In general, I try to look at these things as I would look at them if they were done here. In other words, if there’s a problem with hiring a woman in India to be a surrogate mother, there’s a problem with doing it here, and vice versa. In both cases the woman earns very good money for the area she lives in. If other aspects are equal, where’s the problem?

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