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Newsweek: “Womb for Rent”
By Blast Magazine Newsroom
NEW YORK — The concept of surrogacy is decried by conservative Christians, viewed
as a form of prostitution by far-left feminists and debated by medical ethicists
and lawmakers, but the practice is on the rise. For the April 7 Newsweek cover, “Womb
For Rent” , writers found more women than ever before are having babies
for those who cannot. Another reason for the rise in surrogacies is that technology
has made them safer and more likely to succeed. Clinics now boast a 70 to 90
percent pregnancy success rate — up 40 percent in the past decade. Rather than
just putting an egg into a petri dish with thousands of sperm and hoping for
a match, embryologists can inject a single sperm directly into the egg. The great
majority of clinics can now test embryos for genetic diseases before implantation.
It’s revolutionizing
the way clinics treat patients. Ric Ross, lab director at LaJolla IVF in San
Diego, says these advances have helped “drop IVF miscarriage rates by 85 percent.”
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