In many developed nations, surrogacy—the idea of paying a woman to carry a stranger's child—is outlawed or tightly restricted. In the US, by contrast, business is booming, writes Helen Lewis argues in ...

Three recent surrogacy stories made headlines within two weeks. In each one, it was the woman with no genetic tie to the baby who fought to keep the child alive. On July 14, the New York Post reported ...

DALLAS (AP) — In a story published Aug. 25, 2026, about a legal battle between a couple and their surrogate, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Nausheen Gilkar said her son was “the most ...

In August 2025, McKenna West, a single mother from Alaska, agreed to carry a pregnancy on behalf of a couple from California. A year on, West and the child are in Texas, and the resulting multistate ...

McKenna West wanted the child she was carrying to be born, but she was afraid the parents of the child she was carrying did not. West, a nurse and single mother of two from Alaska, was serving as a ...

Circle Surrogacy reports that becoming a gestational surrogate is a personal choice involving emotional, financial, and time commitments, requiring careful consideration.