January
14
  3:36:21 PM

British surrogate to give birth to her eighth child

Jill HawkinsIf 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

 



 

 Search BioEdge

 Subscribe to BioEdge newsletter
rss Subscribe to BioEdge RSS feed

 Best of the web

 Recent Posts
Lost in surrogacy’s Bermuda Triangle
3 Feb 2012
Scores of UK patients die with bedsores, infections and malnutrition
3 Feb 2012
Crackdown on illegal abortions restores Taiwan sex ratio
3 Feb 2012
Immigrant dad will miss out on transplant
3 Feb 2012
North Carolina may compensate victims of eugenics program
2 Feb 2012

 Tags
India, Canada, Netherlands, assisted suicide, bioethics, clinical trials, Down syndrome, China, law, embryonic stem cells, HFEA, genetic testing, euthanasia, US, organ trafficking, organ donation, stem cells, human drama, sperm donation, surrogacy, commercialization, Australia, research, suicide, sex selection, neuroscience, UK, IVF, abortion, informed consent,