Surrogacy
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years - Thomas Frank
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Breeders: A Subclass of Women?
Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century—celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is fraught with complex implications for women, children, and families.
What is the impact on the women who serve as surrogates and on the children who are born from surrogacy? In what ways might money complicate things? What about altruistic surrogacy done for a family member or close friend? Is surrogacy a beautiful, loving act or does it simply degrade pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product?
Can we find a middle ground? Should we even look for one?
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Surrogacy Is Complicated. Just Ask New York.
A bill to legalize paid surrogacy in New York stalled in the Assembly. Here’s why the issue became so divisive.
Surrogacy laws: why a global approach is needed to stop exploitation of women
There may well be difficulties in getting people from different places, cultures or backgrounds to agree the demand for and effects of current surrogacy practices, but surrogacy deserves a global conversation.
Surrogacy: Why the world needs rules for 'selling' babies
Surrogacy is not a new phenomenon. For thousands of years, women have nominated others to give birth on their behalf. However, technological advances such as IVF, softening of cultural attitudes and the trend for having children later have fuelled a recent boom in surrogacy. In the past two decades, it has become a global phenomenon. There are no precise figures on how many children are involved but as far back as 2012 the industry around surrogacy was worth an estimated $6bn (£4.7bn) a year.
2014: the year international surrogacy came to the fore
This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born this way and the potentially devastating consequences of babies being abandoned and stateless shocked our collective consciousness.
A Basic Guide To The Complicated World Of Surrogacy
Surrogacy is one of those splashy subjects that often grabs headlines, most recently with Kim Kardashian (possibly) taking to Twitter to shoot down rumors that she's using a surrogate to carry Kimye baby number two. But there is still a lot of confusion about what surrogacy entails -- and what it doesn't
Baby Markets and the New Motherhood: Reproducing Hierarchy in Commercial Intimacy
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tens of thousands of children are born each year in the United States through assisted reproductive technologies (ART). These technologies provide a stunning candy store of options: a spectrum so vast in array, scope, and breadth as to make heads spin: in vitro fertilization, ova selling, cryopreservation of ova, womb renting, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, embryo transfer, assisted hatching, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) of ova, embryo grading, and more.
Conception Controversy: Regretting Surrogacy
New film highlights women who agree to be surrogates, then struggle with giving up babies after birth.
How Commercial Surrogacy Became a Massive International Business
In 2015, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Mexico—nearly all the major markets for commercial surrogacy—banned the practice for foreigners. But the global demand isn't going anywhere.
Is a Surrogate a Mother?
A battle over triplets raises difficult questions about the ethics of the surrogacy industry and the meaning of parenthood.
It's illegal to pay a surrogate mother in Canada. So what would motivate a woman do it?
Creating life, you can feel that.” At 31, Robertson has never had gestational diabetes or high blood pressure, and all of her babies had relatively quick vaginal births. Her doctor once suggested she become a surrogate, and in November, 2013, three weeks after her youngest son was born, she got in touch with Surrogacy in Canada Online.
My American Surrogate
A Chinese businesswoman in California has become a matchmaker between Chinese parents and American surrogates.
Surrogacy: A 21st Century Human Rights Challenge
Society is only beginning to grapple with the issues that it raises. Increasingly, surrogates function as gestational carriers, carrying a pregnancy to delivery after having been implanted with an embryo.
Surrogacy: Joyful, Frightening, Always Risky
The story of two families who had babies via surrogate, with very different experiences
Surrogate babies: Where can you have them, and is it legal?
Surrogacy laws vary from country to country, which can leave children vulnerable.
The Hidden Costs of International Surrogacy
Overseas options look cheaper on paper, but they don't account for fraud, travel costs, and legal headaches that inevitably arise.
What's It Like to Be a Surrogate Mom?
Carrying someone else’s baby is a lot different than making your own.
Why I carried a baby for someone else
In Canada, it is illegal to pay a woman to give birth to a child that is not her own. Yet, hundreds of surrogacies take place every year. Here, three women tell Alison Motluk why they do it.
Breeders: A Subclass of Women?
Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century—celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is fraught with complex implications for women, children, and families.
ConceiveAbilities
ConceiveAbilities is a company that serves an international clientele of intended parents, providing third party reproductive services, including a world-class egg donation program and a growing gestational surrogacy program.
Fertility Source Companies
Fertility SOURCE Companies’ mission is to provide individuals who are unable to conceive with the assistance they need to become parents, including matching them with an egg donor, surrogate or both.
Growing Generations
Growing Generations is a full-service surrogacy and egg donation agency passionately dedicated to the vision of creating life as a means of changing the world.
Surrogacy in Canada Online
At Surrogacy in Canada Online, we believe every person has a right to become a parent via third party reproduction regardless of their ethnic origin, religion, age, marital status, gender or sexual orientation.
Think Again
A campaign to protect the most vulnerable among us--especially women and children--from exploitation.
Surrogacy Controversy
Surrogacy has been a controversial topic for decades. Although it became popular in the late 1980’s through the 1990’s, the practice of surrogacy has been around since biblical times. The common misconceptions about this treatment for infertile couples are based on legal, social, and ethical aspects.
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