Why Britain is updating its laws on surrogacy and gamete donation
The rise of the same-sex parent family and elective single mothers
WHEN KIM COTTON, a young British woman, carried and gave birth to a baby for an anonymous couple in 1985, many Britons were horrified. Ms Cotton had been artificially inseminated by the intended father and paid £6,500 ($9,353). “Born to be sold,” ran one headline. Appalled lawmakers hurriedly passed the Surrogacy Arrangements Act, which prohibited commercial surrogacy and regulated the uncompensated kind.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Modern families”
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