The Importance Of Partial Surrogacy

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Would you consider surrogacy? Or being a surrogate? Surrogacy is becoming a surrogate mother and arranging a pregnancy to give someone a baby who can’t have one. A surrogate is the person who carries the baby for the couple who cannot have one. Surrogacy is used when someone cannot bear children either because of medical reasons or old age. The full surrogacy process is when an embryo is implanted into the woman’s body using either the egg and sperm of the future parents, a donated egg and sperm of the future father, or using a donated egg and donor sperm. Partial surrogacy is the process of using the sperm of the future father and the egg of the surrogate who will carry the baby (Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority). More and more women are considering surrogacy for money. It is ethical to use surrogacy as a way of living because it helps people who cannot have their own children or it can help the surrogate by being able to support herself.
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Two weeks later they were presented with an e-mail from the doctor saying that the egg did not grow in the surrogate. After multiple months Dr. Patel found an egg donor. The Dr. then implanted the donor egg and Tim’s sperm into the new surrogate. After two weeks Lili and Tim received another disappointing e-mail that the surrogate’s pregnancy test came back negative. Lili and Tim then started to look into adoption in Nepal. They got their names on the waiting list for a Nepalese child. Several countries had been pulled out because the adoption agency was accused of corruption. Tim then discovered a clinic in Hyderabad. He left his semen and a check for $7,000. This agency will not stop trying to find a surrogate or donor. Once a pregnancy is confirmed the next payment of $25,000 will be due. The Hyderabad clinic needed more of Tim’s semen samples. So Tim is planning a trip back to Hyderabad to provide more

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