Surrogacy-pregnancy expected to increase in a decade

Spectrum 1 News ^ | Sep 2023 | Estephany Escobar

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Global Market Insights estimates the surrogacy market will grow from $14 billion in 2022 to $129 billion by 2032.

One of the forms of surrogacy is known as gestational surrogacy, which is when a woman carries a baby that she's not genetically related to for another person.

Atrium Health CMC’s Women’s Institute Medical Director and Director of Fertility Preservation Dr. Michelle Matthews said in the past 20 years gestational surrogacy is used more often for family building.

“Women are waiting until they’re older to have children, so as we wait until we get older, we can have more gynecologic conditions and medical conditions where you need to use a surrogate, and then of course you know with same-sex family building, I think there is more recognition and acceptance of that,” Matthews said.

This process is made possible through in vitro fertilization where a sperm and an egg are fertilized outside the body before the fertilized egg is transferred into a surrogate to carry the pregnancy.

Brianna Buck is a mom of two. In 2020, after she and her husband completed their family, she became a gestational surrogate in 2020 for a couple in New York.

“I just came to know so many people who are struggling with infertility who are going to be such fantastic parents, but there are all these things standing in their way, and I just thought that was something I could do,” Buck said.

She received around $50,000 in compensation for surrogacy and an experience she describes as unforgettable.

“To know you built this family and created this life for another family was really incredible,” Buck said.

Matthews said as with any pregnancy, there are potential complications, in this case for the surrogate.

She adds social media and celebrities have likely increased awareness about surrogacy.

[Bernard]

First. it’s people trying to make a middle-class living by DoorDash or Uber Eats. Now it’s going to be permanently pregnant women, with a short break in-between. One can only speculate how that app will work.

[b4me]

sure, too many kids, teens young adults are eating in ways to do harm to reproductive health, taking various drugs etc effecting it as well.

many people also don’t see that reproduction is God’s design and plans for each person uniquely. Some have more trouble by His design or reasons, and some by their own choices, which is no surprise to Him.