Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Assembling the Global Baby! Is This Exploitation or A Real Service to Infertile Couples?


Hello Dr. Palmer,  I try and read the Wall Street Journal every day and once and a while I come across some really interesting stuff that new businesses are doing relating to the scientific world. One article that I though was really interesting was one called "Assembling the Global Baby."  This article is about a company based in California, called PlanetHospital.  What they do is help families you cannot have children by themselves.  PlanetHospital uses an egg donor from one country, a sperm donor from another, and a surrogate who will deliver in a third country to make what some industry participants call a world baby.  The most interesting part to me is that some countries will not allow a birth certificate to surrogate babies and deem this process illegal.  I thought the picture in the article was a very good summary.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007774155...  Thanks

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