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The Hidden Market for Babies
"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard
Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business:
How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. |
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fact, baby selling is prohibited across the world. But each day infants and
children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their
eggs, surrogates, and adoption services.
We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses.
Orphans aren't sold—they are "matched" to adoptive parents, Spar says. Yet
"advances in reproductive medicine have indeed created a market for babies,
a market in which parents choose traits, clinics woo clients, and
specialized providers earn millions of dollars a year. In this market,
moreover, commerce often runs without many rules."
Spar doesn't argue that this market is good or bad, just simply that it
exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she
concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade.
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