Zippi Brand Frank on Google Baby

1 Comments POSTED: September 10, 2009 18:49 | By: Sarafina DiFelice

"Working on Google Baby I knew I was dealing with the actual application of business rules and commerce dynamics to… well babies. And yet the actual real life examples (excuse the pan) where many times surprising and hard to digest.

One such example that did not make it into the movie was that of Manjhi, a Japanese baby girl born to a japanese couple through a surrogate in India. Between the time she was conceived and her birth in India the ordering parents have divorced.  Neither the would-be mother nor father wanted the baby and they declined to come pick her up from the surrogate house in Anand. The Indian surrogate who gave birth to Manjhi was being pushed by local authorities in India to take her as her own. The Indian surrogate did not want to take Manjhi as her daughter and the Hostel backed her up in a legal dispute against the state. Eventually the Japanese grandmother from the divorcee father side from whos sperm Manjhi was conceived decided to take care of her and she made her way back to Tokyo 3 months after her birth.

When making a baby can be outsourced than clearly there bound to be situations where by  the outcome (not to say product) will be returned or at least not picked up. What happens then remains an open question....at least until you watch the movie."

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