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"Ever since the Baby M case, the public has been fascinated with the continuing phenomenon of surrogate motherhood. The Baby M case raised, and left unanswered, many questions about what constitutes motherhood, fatherhood, family, reproduction, and kinship. What do the surrogates, commissioning couples, program directors, and attending professionals think and feel about surrogacy? How and when are the children told of their birth origins? How do surrogate...

Hopeful, excited prospective parents, happy, helpful surrogates and a baby brokerage offering an affordable plan. What could go wrong? In Cancun, Mexico and Los Angeles, California, Foreign Correspondent blows the lid on an unscrupulous operator preying on the dreams and life savings of clients, abandoning surrogates and failing to deliver babies despite claiming hundreds of happy customers. North America Correspondent Jane Cowan has this latest chapter...

"Transnational surrogacy--the creation of babies across borders--has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far wider perspective. Featuring contributions from over...

From the publisher: "Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In this book, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for...