At the fertility supermarket | Yvonne Roberts

Describing a surrogate as a 'gestational carrier' is a new low in motherhood's commercialisationWe are fond of following in the footsteps of the stars, so it shouldn't be too long before the average Jo or Joanna is splashing out not on a gastric band or silicone implants but their very own "gestational carrier". This term was used this week in place of the more familiar "surrogate mother" and it coldly describes a person who will incubate a baby for the paid-up parents.Motherhood – or, for tha...

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