In January 2008 they settled on Surrogacy India, a newly established private Mumbai clinic.
Meanwhile, the astronomical price tag of surrogacy in the U.S. made that route impractical.
After researching different options and what they cost, the couple decided to go with Indian surrogacy.
Today, anecdotal data suggest that gay men are among the largest users of surrogacy services.
Physicians in India oversaw an estimated 1, 500 surrogacy births in 2010, a 50% jump from two years earlier.
Beasley signed a "gestational surrogacy agreement" with the California couple, whom she met through a surrogacy Web site.
Surrogacy UK has recently recorded a surge of interest following high-profile surrogacy stories concerning Elton John and Nicole Kidman.
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Although Sonal was careful not to tell anyone where she had been, her in-laws found out about the surrogacy.
This might seem to leave parents who seek surrogacy in a difficult position.
During their research, Matt and Josh found themselves coming across stories of couples doing surrogacy abroad, particularly in India.
Those who seek surrogacy should understand that it is only possible because we believe in a woman's right to choose.
He warned anyone considering travelling abroad to enter into a surrogacy arrangement to prepare properly and to understand the legal implications.
Speaking generally, he said everyone who enters into a surrogacy contact needs to be clear from the beginning about what they are willing and able to do.
The practice is not illegal in the UK, but it is restricted by various legal rules which, generally speaking, allow only surrogacy arrangements that are informal and non-commercial.
Miss Broomhall said that surrogacy was something she "fell into".
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He also argued the scale of planning involved in providing a child for gay couples through donor insemination and surrogacy methods often makes them better parents than their heterosexual counterparts.
States are all over the place on the legality and enforceability of surrogacy contracts, so it is not surprising that the tax law is resisting being dragged into the brave new world of reproductive outsourcing.
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"Commercial surrogacy is a highly controversial matter ethically and at the end of the day, by the time the case gets to me, the best I can do is focus on the welfare of the child, " he said.
From Arizona, over the Internet, the couple picked a potential surrogate and a backup surrogate, just in case, from photos and information such as educational background and family medical history provided by Surrogacy India on a special secure Web site.
The States also approved changes to the Children's Law to clarify the situation in cases of assisted reproduction, to give parents with children born with the help of a donor or via surrogacy the same rights as those who have their children biologically.
While IVF using eggs and sperm taken from the couple in question is allowed, Sunni Muslims are prohibited from using donor eggs or sperm, and surrogacy is also forbidden after the issuing of several "fatwas" from the 1980s onwards from the Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
The mother noted that the surrogacy agency was getting in touch with Kelley, and a few days later, Kelley received an e-mail from Rita Kron at Surrogacy International telling her that if she chose to have the baby, the couple wouldn't agree to be the baby's legal parents.
"I've done quite a lot of these commercial surrogacy cases and I've been extremely anxious at the difficulties people have got themselves into, usually through entering into them without beginning to appreciate the legal implications of doing so, and it just seemed important to say something about that, " he said.
Michael Bergen and Michael Aki, a gay American couple who got married in 2004 and work as graphic designers in Massachusetts, decided to try surrogacy in India after they waited unsucessfully for three years to adopt a child in the U.S. To hire a surrogate, "we looked at Panama and the Ukraine, " recalls 39-year-old Mr. Bergen.
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