Quotes & Sayings About Surrogacy

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. — Mary Beth Whitehead

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me. — Tasha Smith

She had known deep down for as long as she could remember that something was wrong. What she didn't know, was what happened next. — Alice Darwin

Infertility costs an average of about $16-20,000 per procedure, and you don't always get pregnant the first time. I had to go through it seven times. And adoption and surrogacy are not covered through insurance companies. — Cindy Margolis

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore. — Joan Lunden

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling. — Thomas Frank

I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird. — Mary Beth Whitehead

That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it. — Cindy Margolis

Now they can acquire "the egg from one source (including, in many cases, the intended mother) and the womb from another."50 This "unbundling" of the supply chain, Spar explains, has prompted growth in the surrogacy market.51 "By removing the traditional link between egg, womb, and mother, gestational surrogacy [has] reduced the legal and emotional risks that had surrounded traditional surrogacy and allowed a new market to thrive. — Michael J. Sandel

Learn to see the gift in the adversity. By doing this you will begin to find true peace in your struggle. — Stacey Urrutia

It is no longer unusual for people who choose surrogacy, gay adoption, IVF, international and domestic adoption, fostering, and childlessness to live side by side and quietly judge each other. We can all live in peace thinking our way is the best way and everything else is cuckoo. — Amy Poehler

Most of life's issues can simply be answered by posing this one question to yourself " Is it worth it--to me? — Heidi Thompson

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. — Christopher Meloni