By Katie O’Reilly February 18, 2016 When a woman agrees to become a gestational surrogate—meaning she’ll gestate an IVF-created embryo as it grows into a fetus—she and the commissioning parents will typically sign a legally binding contract. The terms vary widely from contract to contract and state to state, but the vast majority will include a […]
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Having someone else’s baby — often in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars — is growing into a major industry worldwide.
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Carrying triplets for complete strangers, the Ontario woman developed first high blood pressure, then congestive heart failure, before she was put into a medically induced coma last fall to save her life — and that of the infants.
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As techniques like IVF and surrogacy become more common among celebrities, tabloids offer a window into the complicated future of reproduction.
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The reality is that family-making today increasingly includes a mixture of sophisticated science, contracts, and negotiations.
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Jessica Kern, a donor-conceived child, wants tighter controls over laws governing assisted reproduction.
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An unexpected fallout of the recent earthquake in Nepal was the evacuation by the Israeli government of 26 newborn surrogate babies from the ravaged country even as the mothers, mostly Indian women, were left behind.
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Thai authorities have raided two premises and seized nine babies — allegedly fathered by one Japanese man — as part of the country’s crackdown on suspected illegal surrogacy.
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“’One of the reasons we have so little consensus in this country or in the world, in terms of legality and the most appropriate ways to regulate [surrogacy], is there’s no consensus in the moral and ethical dimensions.’” Until such a philosophical consensus is reached, there will unfortunately be real, live children caught in the middle.”
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If in vitro fertilization still seems to be cutting-edge medicine, you haven’t been paying attention.
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