The law took effect on Feb. 15, and surrogate pregnancies became a recognized business in the state. Pleas to Gov. Andrew Cuomo from leaders of numerous organizations asking him to withdraw the legislation had gone unanswered. Then COVID-19 disrupted plans to take the opposition campaign to Albany, the capital. The new law has been enacted as most nations around the world have made the practice of commercial surrogacy illegal. Most American states and neighboring Canada also prohibit it.
Globally, commercial surrogacy is an enormously lucrative trade, and growing quickly. Global Market Insights, an international market research and consulting company based in Delaware, tracks trends in the world economy. In December 2020, the company that by 2025 the growth of what it calls the “surrogacy market,” will reach a record revenue level of $27.5 billion, due to “an increasing number of infertility cases across the world along with growing demand for assisted reproductive technologies.
In the second category, a process known as gestational surrogacy, the child is not biologically related to the surrogate mother. Instead, the embryo is created by in vitro fertilization , using the eggs and sperm of the intended parents or donors and is then transferred to the surrogate. egg donors—who may be paid upward of $30,000—are usually strangers selected for any number of apparent attributes.
pass_blue