A few months ago, Julia Baird, the editor who oversees our sci-ence and family coverage, kept coming across stories about Americans (and Brits) going to India to look for surrogates-stories that were prompting angry online debates about the ethics of outsourcing childbear-ing to the developing world. It was all very interesting, Julia says, "but I kept wonder-ing why no one was talking about the women in this country who enter commer-cial arrangements to carry other people's babies. The thought of going through childbirth and nine months of pregnancy for someone else seems astonishing for anyone who has been through it them-selves. Sure, it's a joyful, miraculous process-but it is not easy.
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