A new and sickening twist to outsourcing...

This is just disgusting. Found via First Things where the author sums it all up very nicely;

MUMBAI: The customs department seized a batch of frozen embryos three days ago, despatched from the US and meant to be implanted in Indian surrogates.

Two foreigners acting as couriers for the importer, Dr Hrishikesh Pai—an IVF consultant at Lilavati Hospital—were held. Pai insisted ICMR guidelines allowed such imports, but that the Customs Manual did not reflect this.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

So it goes with the Culture of Death, where human beings are increasingly treated as mere commodities. In this case both the mothers and the children they might bear become nothing more than "things" to be utilized.

I'll close by pointing out the obvious continued decline of valuing our fellow humans. It isn't stopping, it isn't slowing down. Those who see victories and a turnaround in our culture towards a greater appreciation of human life are deluded, overall we're getting worse. There may be the illusion of improvement, such as when polls show a decreasing support for abortion, but overall we're continuing to decay.