Lisa Belkin over at the NYT's Motherlode blog wonders if the pursuit-of-parenthood market may be oversaturated. 
Citing the recent examples of the Sarah Jessica Parker/Matthew Broderick surrogate twins and the woman attempting to become a surrogate grandmother by using her dead son's sperm,
Belkin asks if science -- with its IVF, egg donations, fertility drugs
and other advances -- has perhaps given us too many options. She quotes
The Washington Post's Liza Mundy, who recently wrote a book about
assisted reproduction: "When there is always something else to try ...
there is no
permission to stop. That’s the hardest part of the process for couples.
For most of them, the ‘permission’ to stop comes when they run out of
money."
Mundy mentions a key word there: money.
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