surrogacy

Definitions

Examples

• The biological mother empathized with the couple’s situation, recognizing that common routes to same-sex parenthood — adoption, fertility treatments, sperm donor and gestational surrogacy — can be expensive.

• They’d had Sofia through surrogacy and had been hoping to have another child, Pakota said.

• Parenthood is now possible for people who never imagined it in their futures, including same-sex couples and single parents, thanks to such refinements as egg donors, surrogacy and the successful freezing of eggs, sperm and embryos.

• We’re now in our early 40s, so obviously the window for having a child through natural means has closed, but I’ve been researching adoption and surrogacy and think it may be the path for us.

• To legally marry my partner, we had to travel to Canada, and to legally have children via surrogacy, it required seven separate trips to America totaling 100,000 miles, $300,000, and about three months off from work.

• India was once considered the go-to spot for commercial surrogacy, but Thailand is the emerging market, so to speak.

• Unfortunately, that is rarely the case in the commercial surrogacy industry.

• The horrific case of an abandoned baby with Down syndrome has exposed the lawless world of international surrogacy.

• Everingham says it is essential for surrogacy agencies to be better monitored.

• That also made it appealing for couples barred from the (relatively) regulated world of Indian commercial surrogacy.