This article was published in The Financial Express on sept 08.
The procedural wrangles that a Japanese father found himself facing may not really be a dampener for aspiring couples wanting a child. True to the spirit of globalisation, a US firm is offering Australians affordable gestational surrogacy and egg donation services in India.
“Australian surrogacy requires a deft approach. With our complete, end-to-end services, Proactive Family Solutions(PFS) removes the guesswork of foreign surrogacy and stands together with Australians every step of the way, through the extensive relationships of its parent company, one world united, PFS has access to a broad network of world-class doctors and hospitals” explains Mendel Zilberberg, president and CEO, of US-based One World United.
“Additionally, PFS has addresses all foreign travel, including immigration-related issues such as birth certificates and passports for the parents and newborn, assuring smooth travel to and from India” Zilberberg said
While the Australian government examines the issue of surrogacy domestically, PFS offers a viable alternative to prospective parents who wish to start their families sooner rather than later. PFS distinguishes itself from other surrogacy services around the world by closely working with its varied clients to secure a successful outcome. PFS, through its legal team lays the groundwork in advance to ensure the parents are able to return home with their child.Barring unforeseen medical circumstances, PFS will work with intended parents to assist them in becoming actual parents even going so far as to offer a financial guarantee to medically qualified parents electing this option, the company says in an reference to the legal hurdles faced by a Japanese father in taking his child to Japan. In concert with India-based doctors and medical teams, PFS goes to extraordinary lengths to achieve a viable outcome including medical testing and screening of all donors and surrogates as necessary, psychologically and physicall screening surrogates, careful monitoring of the surrogate at all stages of the pregnancy,and providing for the medical and nutritional needs of the surrogate.
Additionally, through its sister company, BestMed Journeys, PFS provides broad range of foreign medical travel concierge services to intended parents. Fertility tourism is on rise in India where it can be outsourced cheaply, safely and legally.
A process of surrogacy costs around $ 50,000 in the US while in India it's readily available cheap at $10,000 thus making India a hot spot for the business. Surrogacy was legalised in India in 2002 and has become a lucrative idea for many to make easy money. The business has picked up in India compared to other countries as women donors are found aplenty in India, the bills are nominal which can be paid online through a credit card and the number of embryos a doctor can plant in a woman's womb not strictly monitored unlike other countries, say experts.
The baby shoppers also prefer India because most of the time 100 % success rate is guaranteed even if the mother is too old for child bearing age.
The procedural wrangles that a Japanese father found himself facing may not really be a dampener for aspiring couples wanting a child. True to the spirit of globalisation, a US firm is offering Australians affordable gestational surrogacy and egg donation services in India.
“Australian surrogacy requires a deft approach. With our complete, end-to-end services, Proactive Family Solutions(PFS) removes the guesswork of foreign surrogacy and stands together with Australians every step of the way, through the extensive relationships of its parent company, one world united, PFS has access to a broad network of world-class doctors and hospitals” explains Mendel Zilberberg, president and CEO, of US-based One World United.
“Additionally, PFS has addresses all foreign travel, including immigration-related issues such as birth certificates and passports for the parents and newborn, assuring smooth travel to and from India” Zilberberg said
While the Australian government examines the issue of surrogacy domestically, PFS offers a viable alternative to prospective parents who wish to start their families sooner rather than later. PFS distinguishes itself from other surrogacy services around the world by closely working with its varied clients to secure a successful outcome. PFS, through its legal team lays the groundwork in advance to ensure the parents are able to return home with their child.Barring unforeseen medical circumstances, PFS will work with intended parents to assist them in becoming actual parents even going so far as to offer a financial guarantee to medically qualified parents electing this option, the company says in an reference to the legal hurdles faced by a Japanese father in taking his child to Japan. In concert with India-based doctors and medical teams, PFS goes to extraordinary lengths to achieve a viable outcome including medical testing and screening of all donors and surrogates as necessary, psychologically and physicall screening surrogates, careful monitoring of the surrogate at all stages of the pregnancy,and providing for the medical and nutritional needs of the surrogate.
Additionally, through its sister company, BestMed Journeys, PFS provides broad range of foreign medical travel concierge services to intended parents. Fertility tourism is on rise in India where it can be outsourced cheaply, safely and legally.
A process of surrogacy costs around $ 50,000 in the US while in India it's readily available cheap at $10,000 thus making India a hot spot for the business. Surrogacy was legalised in India in 2002 and has become a lucrative idea for many to make easy money. The business has picked up in India compared to other countries as women donors are found aplenty in India, the bills are nominal which can be paid online through a credit card and the number of embryos a doctor can plant in a woman's womb not strictly monitored unlike other countries, say experts.
The baby shoppers also prefer India because most of the time 100 % success rate is guaranteed even if the mother is too old for child bearing age.