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What protections are in place during surrogacy?

A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago. (Teresa Crawford/AP)
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A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago. (Teresa Crawford/AP)

A surrogacy gone wrong helps highlight the lack of regulation around the process of when a woman carries a pregnancy for another person.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Emi Nietfeld, a journalist and author who covers fertility technology, about her latest piece in Wired.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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