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Kathy Tuccaro

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Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

If she wants to be a mother, you can do that too.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Your book also talks about surrogacy.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

That's kind of a difficult decision sometimes for couples.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Does that involve maybe your own egg, or is the surrogate, if the woman does not have a viable egg or enough of them...

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

does that mean that the surrogate is going to provide the egg?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Okay.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Now, how does that work?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

How do you get a surrogate pregnant?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

And this is done through what, some sort of hormone therapy to prepare the uterus?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Yep.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Now, is there any possibility the surrogate could change her mind?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Okay.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

That is a gift.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

It is a gift.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

An absolute gift, yeah.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

So how much does it cost to have a surrogate?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Are we talking thousands and thousands of dollars?

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Wow.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

So that's over the course of nine months that the surrogate gets paid $150,000.

Women Road Warriors
Why Fertility Isn’t Fair to Women

Well, no, no, no.