Surrogacy

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Inside the shadowy world of the billion-dollar fertility industry

The author of Unwell Women and A Woman’s Work questions our obsession with wombs and considers what resistance by mothers and midwives has looked like through the ages

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‘Her payment never came’: What it’s really like being a surrogate mother in Georgia

A booming surrogacy industry has made fortunes and broken promises. As scandals brew and a court case begins in Georgia, three women who carried children for strangers share their stories – from emergency twin C-sections to failed implantations