Baby whispering rachel-tie that is-Netflix-Star Which built a multimillion-dollar empire that entertains the youngest of the Tuper viewers. New Mom who also divides the 7-year-old son with her husband Aron Instagram On Tuesday to report it – and thank her surrogate.
“I failed to suffer this pregnancy for medical reasons, and we were blessed by the surrogate, which gave us the most valuable gift,” Rachel Griffin wrote, aka Mrs. Reichl. “Now we are all family forever. We have a huge gratitude and deep connection. It was a really beautiful experience. I’m delighted with it.”
Many other high-profile parents also had infants through surrogate Sarah Parker, Elton John, Nicole Kidman, Kim Kardashian, Chloe Kardashian, Gabriel Union, Tira Banks and Andy Cohen, only for beginners.
And also many ordinary people. The number of embryo transmission procedures using gestations surrogate has increased to 9195 from 2010 to 2019, reports A Wealth history used centers to control the disease and prevent data of the fertility clinic (no longer available on CDC).
Although accurate current figures are difficult to determine, it is safe to say that business is thriving: the world market of surrogate motherhood was revered In 2022, $ 175.79 million and, according to forecasts, will reach $ 303.35 million by 2031, growing at a difficult annual growth rate of 6.25% during this time. North America is the highest market participant, which is supposed to grow by 6.3%over the same period.
However, many people know little about this process. Below, the experts pass readers on the basics of surrogate motherhood.
What is surrogate motherhood?
The simplest plan, surrogate motherhood – is when another person carries and delivers the child to another couple or person known as the appointed parents or parents.
In the past, this was done with the help of traditional surrogate motherhood – essentially Baby m Care Housing), a child of her genetic makeup made from her own egg.
And although the erroneous conviction remains that all surrogates are still traditional surrogates, and people think that “just mom gives up on her child,” explains Rachel Jones, nurse and vice president on clinical strategy in family construction campaign Win“It is more difficult than that, and more nuanced.”
It is also a completely different process called the gestational surrogate, that is, the surrogate is by no means connected directly to the offspring. “So, in fact, eggs and sperm are fertilized through the IVF in the laboratory, and then the embryo is placed through the transfer of the embryo to the uterus gestational carrier,” says Jones. “And so, when she gives birth, it’s not a biologically her child,” which makes the agreement much more clear from a legal point of view.
How does commercial surrogate motherhood work?
In the United States, most of the supergope is located through an agency corresponding to surrogates with their parents appointed. These are commercial surrogate arrangements – this means that the surrogate is financially compensated – although sometimes there is something known as altruistic arrangements, causing a woman to carry a child or loved one for other reasons and does not pay.
Those who are paying usually earn about $ 30,000, says Jones – although the total value of the parents or parents is much higher, usually ranges from $ 100,000 to $ 200,000.
“It’s pretty, quite significant, and it is much because you pay a lot of different people,” Jones explains. “Thus, you potentially compensate for the surrogate. Then the agency that fits you and performs all the work behind the scenes is compensated. You must have a lawyer for both sides – appointed parents, as well as surrogate – and then you pay for medical services.” This sometimes includes a separate medical policy to cover the cost and delivery of surrogate.
“And this is a completely cash market,” she adds. “There is no lighting. Often coverage is through companies such as ours, which work with great employers, but this is nothing compared to what cost.”
In fact, this is what makes some parents find surrogates in other countries where the process is much cheaper. But this happens with risks, warns Jones because it is difficult to find out whether the process is operating, especially in countries such as India and Turkey“Basically, using those who are embarrassed and unable.” There may also be difficult situations such as war in The Surrogate Center of Ukraine.
Is surrogate legal?
Commercial surrogate motherhood is not regulated by the federal, but left by the states, creating patchwork laws, through which it is allowed without restriction in 15 states, with different conditions or legal obstacles in 32, while the three states (Arizona, Indiana, Nebraska) prohibit surrogate contract.
“More and more people are actually traveling to surrogate motherhood in the US because there are many states with gray areas,” Jones says.
Worldwide, at least 10 countries prohibit Commercial surrogate motherhood, including Cambodia, Italy, Germany and Spain.
The reasons behind the illegality suggests that the lawyer of Judith Hohst – a member of the board Decision: National Infertility AssociationThe past chairman of the American Society of Reproductive Medicines, and the mother of the 21-year-old son had surrogate maternity-coming from the extraordinary opinion of parents who use surrogates to the “paternalist”.
“I think there is an opinion that people just want to pay anyone to take their baby because they don’t like pregnancy,” she says. “I am going to my 15th year that practices the reproductive law, I have never had a single case where someone doesn’t want to have a pregnancy.”
Her customers, she said, often experience a dangerous pregnancy and say they do not try it again or they had hysterectomy – or breast cancer, making it too risky to be subjected to estrogen necessary for IVF procedures. And about 15% of her customer-coarse dads.
‘I just returned from the Third International Forum of Surrogate Motherhood in Cape Town, Africa, and so much of the world contradicted the surrogation because they believe Happiness. “So I think there is paternalism where men think they know better for women, not women who say,” I know what is better for me. “
However, there is a feminist angle that opposes surrogate motherhood, including through International Coalition for the abolition of surrogate motherhoodand, in the USA, Coalition Against Trading Women in Womenwho pushed against New York when the state moved to legalize the practice in 2020 with Executive Director Taina Bien-Aham prevention“Like all women’s organized exploitation for profit, this is also a game for money.”
Some researchMeanwhile, indicates surrogate pregnancy that is a higher risk than others – what some surrogates may not always understand I go.
Why more and more people use surrogates
“I think the only reason is frank because Every six People are fighting infertility and they are at the end of the road to try to have a baby, “Hohst says. Unlike adoption, she says it is a way to have a genetic offspring. But” adoption is not easy, and international adoptions are largely closed. “
Jones agrees, noting: “From an international point of view, there are certainly fewer countries open to the US and national adoption, there are also really long waiting times to adopt domestic babies. And if you want to give birth to your own child, sometimes to say it.” Moreover, she says because so many women decide to try pregnancy later in life if it can be more difficult.
But Jones also sees that the rise is the result of changing the belief systems. “I think we are becoming more open and liberal for fertility in general,” Jones says. “Everyone is waiting for the construction of the family. It doesn’t matter in which side of the passage you are … And so I think we all have become a little more open, knowing that there are different ways to paternity.”
For Hoechst, this path has changed the trajectory of her life – providing her new goal in his lawyer’s career and, of course, her son. To this day, she maintains relationships with surrogate, just like Ms. Rachel plans when she says now “all families forever.”
“I still maintain a connection with her,” Hohst shares. “I write to her on her birthday, on Mother’s Day, on the holidays to say, ‘Thank you for our son’s life. Here’s the drawings. “It would not exist on this earth but for it.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-09 18:37:00
Beth Greenfield
