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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 09:55 AM Jul 2014

Coming to U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry It

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/us/foreign-couples-heading-to-america-for-surrogate-pregnancies.html?emc=edit_th_20140706&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46529169

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At home in Lisbon, a gay couple invited friends over to a birthday celebration, and at the end of the evening shared a surprise — an ultrasound image of their baby, moving around in the belly of a woman in Pennsylvania being paid to carry their child.

“Everyone was shocked, and asked everything about how we do this,” said Paulo, who spoke on the condition that neither his last name nor that of his husband, João, be used since what they were doing is a crime in Portugal.
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