Mar27
(thesun.co.uk) BRITISH gay men are paying a US clinic £33,000 a time to create a designer baby.
Twenty couples have already used the specialist surrogacy scheme for “two-dad†families  15 choosing to have a boy.
Another 25 have made inquiries.
They are turning to the US because of the shortage of donated eggs and surrogate mothers in Britain.
The Fertility Institutes clinic in Los Angeles buys eggs from university students aged 18 to 27. They are fertilised by IVF with sperm from one of the men and implanted in a different woman, who gets £15,000 to act as surrogate mum. The scheme is designed to maximise the chance of an intelligent and healthy tot. (more…)
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