Nick Loeb, a wealthy American, is trying to compel his ex-fiancée, the actress Sophia Vergara, to allow their fertilised embryos to continue what he calls “their journey towards life and birth”. That Loeb, not having a womb of his own, will have to find another individual to help the embryos achieve personhood appears to be the least of the obstacles he anticipates in forcing motherhood upon Vergara. After all, he explained, the couple tried surrogacy a couple of times during their relationship, although without success. “We actually went through the process of going through in vitro, creating life, putting it into a surrogate once, putting into a surrogate a second time.”
All Loeb needs, assuming Vergara’s protests can be dealt with, is another human receptacle, a “gestational carrier”, as Nicole Kidman once referred to the woman who gave birth to her second daughter, or “oven”, as a fellow celebrity styled his and his partner’s surrogate. In many US states, the law supports this unsentimental view of the transaction. In contrast, British reproductive law identifies any surrogate to be the legal mother of a child (pending the transfer of parental status), and, uneasily for the intended parents, allows a six-week pause before she relinquishes the baby.
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