surrogate

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These include the theater’s posh director Meredith Potter; Stella’s bumbling surrogate father, Uncle Vernon; and the heartthrob P.L.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Initially resigned to the assessment they had been given, the couple joined Surrogacy UK in the hope of finding a surrogate who would be willing to use their own eggs.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

So being a single father by choice is a rarer phenomenon, and doing so via gestational surrogacy, in which the surrogate mother bears no genetic link to the child she carries, is rarer yet.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

We also have healthcare surrogate documents in case we become ill.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s really that I can’t leave Otto, Mom. I know the surrogate mothers are great, but he’s bonded to me and it would kill him if I abandoned him.”

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer