If any should know what surrogacy is all
about, it is 45-year-old Jill Hawkins, a British woman who is pregnant
with her eighth child – which she will give away as she has done 7
times before. After the last one, she resolved to give up employment as
a womb for hire. But she couldn’t resist the buzz of being pregnant
again when a 32-year-old woman and her partner approached her. This
will be the first baby which was not created from her own eggs. "I love
being pregnant," she told the Daily Mail. "It's a compulsion, I
suppose, and I really miss it when I'm not pregnant." There is also a financial incentive -- 12,000 pounds for this child.
Surprisingly, Miss Hawkins does not hold
the record for UK surrogacies. The laurels apparently belong to Carole
Horlock, a British woman who moved to France four years ago. She has
carried 12 surrogate children in 13 years. ~ Daily Mail, Jan 6
Consequences of the Bio-Medical Revolution
May 1, 2010, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
Helping nurses understand technological advances in health care and their ethical consequences.
Fertility, Infertility and Gender
June 16-18, 2010, Maynooth, Ireland (near Dublin)
Sponsored by the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Oxford.
Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy
Public Discourse
Obama’s stem-cell policy is not only contrary to sound reason and good science, it violates the law.
The hidden story of Britain’s ‘snowbabies’
London Telegraph
There are tens of thousands of 'spare' IVF embryos currently in storage in Britain, but parents face an agonising choice…
Letting Go
New Yorker
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? asks Atul Gawande