A new bill says women should be able to be paid for being surrogates
In 2015, Natasha Nash, a kitchen designer and mom of two boys in Carleton Place, Ont., took on an additional role: being a gestational surrogate. While she found it to be an amazing experience, it wasn?t always easy. Over 18 months, she underwent dozens of medical appointments, ultrasounds, blood tests and more than a little discomfort. ?A lot of people look in your uterus when you?re a surrogate,? Nash says. But the hardest part was how time consuming the process was. ?I was away from my family a lot,? she recalls.
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What you need to know about gestational surrogacyWhile Nash says the physical toll was minimal?she had a smooth, five-hour labour?the process did have a financial impact on her. The baby?s springtime due date coincided with her industry?s peak season, and her missed weeks of work set her earnings for the year back by half. And because of Canadian law, Nash couldn?t earn a nickel from carrying and delivering the baby.
In Canada, both traditional surrogacy, in which a woman carries a pregnancy that was conceived using one of her eggs for another person, and the far more common gestational surrogacy, in which the pregnancy is conceived using another woman?s egg, are legal. But Canadians are prohibited from compensating surrogates, egg o...
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