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Thanks to Kerry for linking to her compelling personal story of the ovum marketplace. As for the question of market forces bearing on gestational surrogacy sticker price, I have two words to illustrate the right circumstance for the right seller: Debby Rowe. $4 million payoffs not withstanding, however, I do sympathize with Kerry’s and Sarah’s observations on the hazy protection surrogacy contracts offer to potentially exploited owners of host wombs.
I remember well the first major legal case exploring rights of the
surrogate involved a contract gone awry (in the opposite way of the
urban legendary wealthy gay man of Nina’s classic six,
were he to renege on the apartment after the baby is born). In that
famous 1986 case, the surrogate, Mary Beth Whitehead, made a deal with
William Stern to donate her egg and rent her womb to create a child
with Stern, by artificial insemination, to be raised by Stern and his
wife ... (Read the rest of this post, or this conversation, in Double X.)