Source: The Hour
The day Mark Leondires first held his baby in his arms, he felt a surge of love and responsibility. Finally his dream of being a father had become reality.
Like countless parents before him, he and his partner learned how to give a bath and change a diaper, guided by a helpful nurse. And like countless parents before him, he marvelled over his newborn son.
Source: Hello Giggles
Thanks to modern medicine, couples struggling to become pregnant can choose from several different methods to start a family of their own. One such method is surrogacy, in which a woman, a third party to the parents, carries and delivers said parents’ baby. You may have recently heard about this thanks to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. But how does the process of enlisting a surrogate mother work? Parents must first choose which type of surrogacy they’d like to participate in — either traditional or gestational.
Source: Yahoo
Poor villagers in central China are making more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) by acting as surrogate mothers, a Chinese news site has reported.
In some areas, most women of child bearing age had been hiring out their wombs, even though the practice was illegal, Thepaper.cn reported on Saturday.
The news portal’s investigation highlighted the case of a village in Hubei province, where more than 100 women were bearing the fertilised eggs of couples they had never met.
Source: The Strait Times
I was dismayed to read Ms Ho Lay Ping’s letter (Ban surrogacy to protect the interests of children and women; Jan 5).
It contains inaccurate and harmful claims.
Research shows that children of same-sex couples do as well, or even better, than children of heterosexual couples.
Source: BioEdge
Fueled by high demand and high rewards, black-market surrogacy is booming in China, The Times (London) reports. Its source is The Paper, a state-run news website, which carried out a two-month-long investigation.
Agents charge commissioning couples anywhere between US$55,000 and $155,000 for a baby, gender guaranteed. It is also risky, especially if there are problems with the pregnancy or if the baby is disabled.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Phnom Penh: Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles, who is suffering eye cancer, has had her appeal against an 18-month jail sentence on surrogacy charges rejected by a Cambodian court.
Davis-Charles sobbed after a judge ruled on Monday that under Cambodian law the court could not take into consideration her cancer.
Source: D Ceo Healthcare
With the abundance of doctors in Texas and the increasing popularity here of “gestational surrogate pregnancy”—that’s where the surrogate carries the biological embryo of parents who couldn’t have children on their own—Dallas has become a major center for the surrogacy business.
Sources: CBCNews
On a wall in Terri Taylor’s home, opposite the window that looks onto the quiet Fredericton cul-de-sac on which generations of her family have grown up, there’s a series of family photos.
Some of them are pictures of her own children, ranging from their teen years to when they were toddlers.
Others feature twin baby girls, the much longed-for children of Iain and Haley, an Australian couple Taylor met through a surrogacy website.
