First Pizza, now progeny:

ordering babies online and the future of human reproduction

Jason Behrmann, PhDCEO, Founder

Gourmet Chez Toi

I want to be a parent

Surrogacy: reproductive labour

Home Abroad

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FertilityClinic

Surrogacy Centre

First pizza, now progeny: baby ‘take-out’

Modern-day science fiction?

Billion dollar industry

…and growing!

“Baby farms”

Scaleable?

Lessons learned from a ‘pivot’

Entrepreneurship:

Problems are actually opportunities

Benefits of take-out surrogacy

• “Streamlined” surrogacy– Remove unnecessary difficulties

• Remove barriers to reproduction– Costs, restricted mobility, discriminatory policies

• Surrogacy as legitimate business (controversial)– Empower surrogates?

Risks of take-out surrogacy

• Regulations: What regulations? – Complex, international law

• Out-of-sight surrogates– Hidden exploitation?

• Reproduction as a commodity; price on life

What is the future of human reproduction?

Is this a future we want?

Take home message

• International surrogacy will grow

• Geographical borders; citizenship

• Possibility for disconnect with reproduction

• Future families WILL be dramatically different

ANNEX

Assisted reproduction: here and now

Bio-banking reproductive

materialsSurrogacy

Third party reproduction

Reproductive ‘tourism’industry

‘Take-out’ reproduction