Ava Kaufman
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Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has described the propagation of his own genes as a civic duty.
Durov has conceived six children naturally, fathered more than 100 through sperm donations, and drafted plans to grant all of them access to his multi-billion dollar fortune.
Xu Bo, the Chinese video game billionaire, has conceived more than 100 children through surrogacies, with 12 of those carried out in the U.S.
But if Guojun's project was part of this broader movement toward reproductive maximalism, if it wasn't a trafficking scheme, but a rather distorted vision of family, produced from a rather distorted vision of one's own importance to the world, the question I was left with was a different one.
Why was the American surrogacy industry willing to provide exactly what Guo Jun and these other rich men were looking to buy?
That's next time on The Journey.
here because we love surrogacy.
We want families to grow.
I'm really afraid that people who have no other way to have a family, this will be taken away from them.
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The Journey is written and produced by me, Ava Kaufman, senior producer Natalie Jablonski, and producer Raymond Tungakar.
Samara Freemark is the managing producer for the series.
It's edited by Allison McAdam.
Additional editing by Willing Davidson and Madeline Barron.
Theme and original music by Alex Weston.
Additional music by Chris Julin and Allison Leighton-Brown.
This episode was mixed by Corey Schreppel.
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