Infertility Leads To Surrogacy Minefield

WHEN an egg meets the sperm, the successful seed then releases its tightly coiled package of DNA, which fuses with the egg's own DNA and sets in motion a series of genetic events that culminate, nine months later, in the birth of a new human being.

That is how it is supposed to work.

And for hundreds of thousands of years, without anyone knowing quite how or why, it has worked — well enough to perpetuate the species, populate the planet and bring the joy and responsibility of children to countless generations of parents.

But what if it doesn't work? What if egg meets sperm and nothing happens? Human sexual reproduction can be a heartbreakingly unreliable process when the couples are infertile.

Though bio-science has made it possible to create a baby outside the human body in a lab by using a man's sperm and a woman's egg, the cold scientific experiment shut many couples out in the search for a woman willing to serve as a surrogate mother and produce for them a heir.

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