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The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis

Emma Waters

โ€œItโ€™s horrific, itโ€™s disturbing, itโ€™s damaging emotionally,โ€ said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody of the baby she carried as a surrogate. What she believed was an act of generosity...

Pro-Natalism Is Not Enough

Emma Waters

My husband and I have one little girl and we are expecting our second child at the end of this year, six weeks before our third wedding anniversary. We...

Alabama Rules That Embryos Are Children

Emma Waters

Do human embryos deserve the same protections as human beings?  This is the question that drove three sets of parents—whose embryonic children were destroyed at an Alabama hospital’s fertility...