article_snippet.sent: When journalist Gianna Toboni traveled to India to explore the country's rapidly growing, yet unregulated, gestational surrogacy industry for HBO documentary series Vice, journalist Gianna Toboni  didn't anticipate 'how dark' the story would get.
article_snippet.sent: For nearly two years, the producer and host has been reporting on current issues across the globe and has covered everything from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to the effect of climate change on polar bears - but nothing could have prepared journalist Gianna Toboni  for the moment when someone offered to sell journalist Gianna Toboni  a baby over dinner while journalist Gianna Toboni  was working undercover in India. '
article_snippet.sent: Vice correspondent Gianna Toboni (pictured) traveled to India to explore the country's booming gestational surrogacy industry .
article_snippet.sent: The journalist from Brooklyn, New York, went undercover to meet with an agent in India who offered to get journalist Gianna Toboni  a baby in two to three months .
article_snippet.sent: As journalist Gianna Toboni  quickly learned during journalist Gianna Toboni  time working on the Outsourcing Embryos documentary, surrogacy in India is a multi-million dollar business, and one which is made all the more lucrative by the high number of American couples traveling to the country in order to use the services provided by one or more of the ‘embryo outsourcing’ agencies featured in the Vice documentary.
article_snippet.sent: For the most recent episode in the Vice series, journalist Gianna Toboni  went undercover to meet with one surrogacy agent who claimed over dinner that journalist Gianna Toboni  could get journalist Gianna Toboni  a Caucasian baby in two to three months - confirming that there were in fact
article_snippet.sent: ‘extra’ babies being sold on the black market.
article_snippet.sent: never once considered buying a baby, but as a woman who would one day like to be a mother, journalist Gianna Toboni  admitted that there was a moment when journalist Gianna Toboni  thought about accepting the offer, knowing that journalist Gianna Toboni  could provide the child with a loving home that the child may never experience otherwise, particularly as the child was made clear that The agent would have sold a baby to anybody. '
article_snippet.sent: The sale of 'extra' babies on the black market was just one of the many shocking side effects of commercial surrogacy uncovered by journalist Gianna Toboni  and her team.
article_snippet.sent: As a whole, Gianna said that Gianna thinks some parents may be aware of the 'shadier side' of commercialized surrogacy, but a 'vast majority’ have no idea this dark underbelly exits.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vice correspondent Gianna Toboni traveled to India to explore the country's booming gestational surrogacy industry for the HBO series .
  