In the latest installment of Weirdness from the World of Unregulated Assisted Reproduction, young Teresa Anderson, “playing surrogate mother to a childless couple, Luisa Gonzalez and her husband, Enrique Moreno, gave birth to five boys at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center…”
Teresa, 25, had met the couple on the Internet and she says she is waiving the $15,000 she had agreed with the couple as fee since she knew the expenses that Luisa, a homemaker, and Enrique, a landscaper, will have to face. She had intended to use the money for a course in nursing so that she can take up a job to support her family. She and her husband have two children.
All of this is roundly celebrated as a miracle, a “gift of a family” and an act of courage. Hard to dispute the last part.