GLOBALIZING THE WOMB. Thanks to an eye-opening Los Angeles Times article yesterday, you can add “reproductive tourism” to the list of words you never thought you’d hear yoked together. It’s not just call centers going to India — now American couples are apparently turning to Indian women to act as surrogate mothers, and at a cost that’s a fraction of what they’d pay in the U.S.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.