I don t want to be associated with human cloning, said Rhoads. Even for a million dollars, I wouldn t do it. I carry babies for couples who can t conceive. She had been eight months pregnant with twins at the time a tragedy that touched Sally Rhoads. I wanted to help her out, she says.
People worry about poor women being exploited, selling their wombs for a few thousand bucks.
Rhoads had been interested in the idea of gestational surrogacy since she first heard about it in high school. Rhoads advertised her service on an Internet message board and received more than 200 replies. The volume indicates the high demand for gestational surrogates out there, yet there are few cases of the operation in Canada. IVF Canada, a private fertility clinic in Toronto, performs about five gestational surrogacies a year. There have been fewer than 50 cases in Canada, says clinic manager Carole Craig.