Some call it surrogacy, or reproductive tourism. In what might be one of the oddest forms of outsourcing, families are choosing to travel overseas to find surrogates in order to complete their dreams of procreation.
A brief look at Surrogacy in the United States
The roots of commercial surrogacy in the United States began in the late 1970's when a Michigan lawyer began the first surrogacy agency and set out to change the laws to make surrogacy legal. Although surrogacy in the US is legal in all but a handful of states, laws vary from state to state. According to surromomsonline.com, the average surrogacy fee given to a surrogate is $10,000-18,000 and that does not include what is paid for as "expenses" (medical, travel, mileage, lost wages, childcare and housekeeping). Infertile couples typically pay anywhere from $60,000-100,000 for a US surrogacy through an agency.
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