Surrogacy, Now Big Business in Southern California
By Michael Cook,
BioEdge
| 10. 20. 2012
Conceptual Options is a surrogacy agency in “the surrogacy friendly state of California”. This is a promotional video it is using for gay couples. The artwork is quite sophisticated, but its discussion of the difficult moral terrain is non-existent.
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