Alvin Roth

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677 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 May

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different regulatory regimes in each state.

But in most of Western Europe, it's not legal at all.

They don't recognize parenthood.

And in the British Commonwealth, including Canada, they recognize surrogacy and parenthood, but you're not allowed to pay the surrogate.

So there's, of course, fertility tourism.

People who need the help of a surrogate to start their family can come to the United States.

It's not cheap.

They used to go to Ukraine where it was much cheaper, but the war has destroyed that part of the market.

So there's lots of laws.

from forbidding it to forbidding surrogacy entirely to, to not letting it be paid, making it more like kidney donation.

Now, when you forbid something, you still have to cope with the fact that people might get around it.

And people, people have wanted to have children for a long time, right?

People, we are all descended from unbroken generations of people who had children.

And, and so people come to the United States, even from countries where surrogacy is illegal.

And people,

As a result, there are babies.

And so the German courts, the Spanish courts, the French courts, where surrogacy is illegal, have to think, who should this baby go home with?

And a natural answer is, why don't we send her home with her parents?

And so they've had to allow the surrogate parents to adopt their children, things like that.

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