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Americans using surrogacy to create made-to-order babies

December 29th, 2009

betsey-copyFrom this article we learn that there are even more problems with invitro fertilization and surrogacy than are common knowledge. Problems arise when playing God? Shocker!

 

Jared Yee, BioEdge.org

Different regulatory approaches to surrogacy in the US can result in legal tangles, according to a report in The New York Times Magazine. The “lax atmosphere” of surrogacy regulation “means that it is now essentially possible to order up a baby, creating an emerging commercial market for surrogate babies that raises vexing ethical questions.”

The Times gives three disturbing examples.

Continue reading: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/8791/

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