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The Wealthy Chinese Buying Babies and American Citizenship
"In the foreseeable future, China and the U.S. will be the two strongest countries in the world. . . . It will definitely be a win-win situation for your children in the future...
The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis
“It’s horrific, it’s disturbing, it’s damaging emotionally,” said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody of the baby she carried as a surrogate. What she believed was an act of generosity...
Pro-Natalism Is Not Enough
My husband and I have one little girl and we are expecting our second child at the end of this year, six weeks before our third wedding anniversary. We...
Alabama Rules That Embryos Are Children
Do human embryos deserve the same protections as human beings? This is the question that drove three sets of parents—whose embryonic children were destroyed at an Alabama hospital’s fertility...
