There is nothing surprising in the statement that surrogate parenting and the business of assisting people conceive and create children are growth industries around the world. As technological advances shrink the distance between people, that “progress” has helped people find alternatives to bearing or creating their own children.
These breakthroughs in technology have allowed procreation to be delayed and are even well along the path to allow the creation of designer infants. The science and industry of making babies obviously involves a multitude of issues, but attorneys need to be particularly mindful about the rights to or ownership of genetic matter in the form of an embryo that has been formed outside of the human body.
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