Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Non-market surrogacy (the urge to have children is strong...)

Here's a moving story from England (where  paid surrogacy is illegal) about within-family surrogacy that also involves a number of other reproductive technologies that have sometimes met with opposition in some quarters:
Woman gives birth to own grandson as surrogate for her cancer survivor daughter

 "Ms Jenkins said: "They managed to take 21 eggs before I started chemo but only 10 survived. They were made into embryos and grown for two weeks, then frozen.

"Then in May this year we had an embryo defrosted and implanted into my mother's womb..."

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