[tired&retired]

While their are legal protections for supermarket donors in most states, fathers of surrogate children are not protected from child support unless they go through a sperm bank.

We had a case in Pennsylvania a few years ago where a surrogate mother changed her mind and decided to keep her triplets.

She then sued the father sperm donor who was a Dr and won a hefty child support.

[alexander_busek]

The process - legal in the UK since the Surrogacy Arrangements Act came into force in 1985 but practised for centuries - involves a surrogate undergoing IVF to become impregnated with an embryo using the egg of an intended mother or donor with sperm from the intended father or donor.

I am genuinely surprised to learn that in vitro fertilization and the implantation of embryos had been going on "for centuries."

/sarcasm

Regards,