American women become surrogates for foreign couples

April 15, 2011

Is hardship because of the GFC? Or an entrepreneurial spirit? Or a sympathetic legal system? Whatever it is, Illinois women have discovered surrogate motherhood for international clients. At least two dozen babies were born this way in 2010 in the state, which has one of the most surrogacy-friendly laws in the US. The Chicago Tribune estimates that half of the 1,400 babies born to surrogate mothers in the US last year were for overseas clients.  (Chicago Tribune)