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                                    “Why I want to be sorrowful  for lacking of an offspring to address me as mother, when there is need to  examine this magnificent status by postmortem between social mother, biological  mother, legal mother and surrogate mother?”  
This monologue of a teacher  named Anitha Devan who has been deceived because of her final attempt for  artificial pregnancy after her long nine years of expectancy for the  realization of her eagerness to get a child from her own blood, once again  inspire us to think about the magnificent status of motherhood.  Her written experience with which she began  her conflict of law against the ‘Simar sterility remedial centre’ at Edappal  accusing that they made her pregnant using the scrotum of a woman without her  knowledge of permission.  It is very  pathetic and surely it will hurt the heart of anybody.   
Anitha came into this clinic  having international standard, post-modern treatment facilities (as they claimed)  with her husband, a lawyer, after the failure of two times laparoscopy, ICU and  ART treatments within two years.  Here  she has undergone for the post modern therapy named ICSI which coasted about  two hundred thousand Indian rupees. ICSI refers to the abbreviation of Intra  Cymo-plasmic Sperm Injection which is known as the final word to masculine  sterility.  As per this treatment taking  out the ovum from the scrotum of a woman through pick up.  Then purified and separated masculine sperm  inserts through a narrow needle with the help of micromanipulator.  After that the fetus which is keeping in  incubator invests in a matrix.   
Anitha underwent for ICSI two  times within two or three months. Then scanning, Anesthesia, Hormone  injections, embryo transfer and after her long expectancy, the awareness of  becoming a mother trembled her very much. But it didn’t long last. She says  that, the doctor in ‘Simar’ removed one of the fetuses growing in her matrix without even her own  knowledge. When she sheltered in another hospital at Thrissur with compelled  discharge after a major surgery in Simar, she knew that there is infection in  her ovary.  Organs including kidneys  become enactive. The scanning resulted that her child is having a disease named  Hydro sefalus.  In a cute inspection ran  by expert revealed exciting facts. He pointed out the severe genetic defects  the child has. The fact they recognized that no one in Anitha’s and Jayadevan’s  family having genetic defects, persuaded them to do a high costing chromosome study.  With which they have done DNA test too. In  this test, they knew the startling fact that along with her own scrotum, they  have used that of another woman.   
In a reply sent back to  Anitha for her legal notice, unit director of simar K.K. Gopinadhan agrees with  the using of another woman’s scrotum.  He  says that every thing they have done were with the permission of Anitha and he  consents, it is their fault that they got nothing as consent written by Anitha.   
“I understand when I know  ‘mother’ is a mere word which should be recognized through DNA test. My eight  years spent in foot paths of hospitals, forfeited wealth, lost health, pains  suffered… every thing was sheer nonsense”.   These words from Anitha suggested to the diminishing values and loyalty of  our therapeutics.   
Durga- the first test tube  child was given birth on 3rd October 1978.  Now she is in her 26th age.  As per this system, mingle a man’s sperm and  woman’s scrotum in a test tube and it invest in matrix.  This artificial fertilization became great  console for lacks of childless married couples grieving about their  childlessness.  Even in Kerala  itself.  Came 300s of ART clinics, 3 or 4  fertility centers per every district, laparoscopy, IVF, IUA, PGC, ICSI…  etc.   
With enough expectation,  couple approached sterility averting centers and clinics, especially women.  Every one of them came with great eagerness.  In various stages of their journey to mother hood there is a genetic clock warm  with ringing of bell.  When she knows the  sweet pains of her first menses, the clock announces her that you are menstruated.  Then you can become mother.  That is the goal post of the life.   
The mere usage ‘menstruate’  is how meaningful! This suggests breezy bloom of life. Lacks of premature  scrotum cells in matrix perishes at her girlhood.  The only one come out of the nest of the  cells per month with perfect growth and with in 30-35 years 400 or 450  scrotums… human race hatches on these eggs.   When she reaches in a certain age, this process ends automatically and  menses also comes to end. With that condition, the chance to be a mother becomes  null.   
When a year passes after  marriage, people often ask them: isn’t there any special good news? How long  they suppress these frequent questions and their eagerness for becoming a  mother.  The ridiculing society addressing  her as sterile and barren woman!  There  was an era in which the people misunderstood that the sterility would have only  to women. They would consider her as a mere unfruitful tree.   
While in the modem era, it is  recognized that sterility may be with the defects of men.  Many of them try to make it secret.  A sense of degradation of being an impotent  among the society grows in his mind.   This is another reason for giving alms for worship centers.  Because of this, they approach clinics  seeking sterility therapy by spending more money without thinking about future.  While they spent money pawning their dwelling and selling wedding string, they  have an ultimate eagerness or intention to realize their dreams.  Millions of money is spent for this purpose  all over the country.   
Anitha’s incident denotes the  widening unconcern, exploitation and diminishing values in fertility clinic as  well as general hospitals. In foreign countries, after consulting the imparter,  they take out his sperm and keep it freeze.   Only after his return to the sperm bank six month later, and re  consulting, if there is not found any problem, they use the sperm for  treatment. But in many of the sperm banks use new sperms.  This causes for deadly diseases like AIDS.  Scrotum and sperm should be kept regularly-Labeled  and dealt with carefully.   
As a result of unnecessary  treatment, mates have been pushed into permanent sterility.  That is happened in the case of Anitha.  Her ovary was undertook unclear infection and  lacked possibility for another chance.   ICSI and frequent hormone injections occur in several health  problems.  Medicines for boosting scrotum  excretion may cause for abortion.   
The fertility clinic began in  Kerala before ten years.  Hence, there is  no licensing system or other controls here as we see in foreign countries.  It is necessary to have laws for controlling  severe exploitation and carelessness, especially emaciation of values persuades  the activists in their field to do any thing.   The patient or his relatives does not know what happens in an operation  theater of a hospital.  Every patient may  not be aware of treatments and its legal levels.  If this experience is for an educated  teacher, Anitha and her husband who is a lawyer, what will be the condition in  the case of common people without enough knowledge? How can these doctors  deceive his poor patients who believe him as a god?   
There is a great emotion  behind the readiness of parents for artificial fertilization by bestowing their  scrotum and sperm.  Emotions do not agree  with accepting other’s sperm and scrotum.   It is the greatest deceive to wound these emotions.   
                                    Anitha  concludes her monologue by saying: “I dedicate my struggle as fondness for the  mankind who were given birth and for those who are going to be born.  They have no clan or race, name or  reputation; they will come to the earth in coming days in which abundant  matrixes seeking sharp wages for delivery after ten months of painful pregnancy  will be there”.  She concealed in these  lines all pains of unrealized motherhood of a woman who has been betrayed by  someone. | 
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