SXSW Review: Google Baby21: 32 20/03/2010, Jette Kernion, baby Google, googlebaby, India, surrogacy, sxsw2010, Cinematical

SXSW Review: Google Baby21: 32 20/03/2010, Jette Kernion, baby Google, googlebaby, India, surrogacy, sxsw2010, Cinematical


The title of Google baby is a little misleading - if you went into the film cold, you'd think it was something nice. Babies are cute, right? In this documentary, however, babies are a commodity item, and the film explores new ways that people can not have children are using the latest technology to acquire them. As the introduction out innovations in birth control was easy to take the 1960 birth of sex, the latest innovations of subrogation that is easy to take the sex out of childbirth.

The main focus of Google baby is in a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, India. The women are impregnated with another person and carry embryos to term, and instead earn enough money to send their children to school or to help buy a house for his family. Women live at the clinic from the moment of fertilization until birth, although their families may visit occasionally. It is a very feminine - you see the occasional visiting husband or a doctor in the operating room, but the rest of the staff, until the owner or doctor, they tend to be women.
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