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Surrogacy is big business in India.
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Virtually penniless, Vaghela had decided to become a surrogate mother for an American couple because she was desperate to give her own two children an education and a better life. In May, after suddenly developing complications towards the end of her pregnancy, Vaghela collapsed. Before she died, the doctors handling her pregnancy at Pulse Hospital in Ahmedabad, in western India, performed a caesarean section and the baby was born a month premature, but lived.
No police investigation has been ordered into Vaghela's death. Her husband, even if he were aware of his legal rights (which he won't be as a poor Indian), cannot sue Pulse Hospital for compensation.
