I’ve often observed that it would be much cheaper and more successful for the bio-dad to have sex the natural way with the gestational carrier. Of course, that would never fly when the g.c. is in India or Thailand: the bio-dads want white babies, not Asian ones.
That opens up a whole new can of worms. How many women would be okay with their husband having a possibly extended sexual fling hoping to get a baby out of the deal?
But morals don’t count for much these days it seems so who knows.
Brings to mind a Handmaids Tale type scenario.
I have a much younger cousin whose wife agreed to be the incubator for her sister who wasn’t producing eggs.
The docs harvested her eggs and introduced them to bio dad’s little swimmers in a lab then implanted the egg in her womb.
She gave birth and handed over the baby in the delivery room.
That was 20 years ago and she has regretted it every day.
She’s no longer close to her sister.
I ain’t a woman, but it seems to me that pregnancy is an intensely personal affair for a gal.
Must be hard to give up something you’ve carried and cared for for nine months. If you have a soul anyway.
JMHO.