The Baby Business: A Fairy Tale?

January 7, 2011

The much-discussed cover story of last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine introduced us to the “twiblings” – writer Melanie Thernstrom’s two children, born a few days apart to different surrogates who carried IVF embryos created from the eggs of one third-party gamete provider. Thernstrom explains that she financed two surrogates, rather than going for the more common twin pregnancy, in order to avoid the non-trivial but under-appreciated risks to the babies. She doesn’t mention the difficulties and risks to women who bear multiples. (CGS)