Jennifer Cantor, a 34-year-old surgical nurse from Huntsville, Ala., loves being pregnant. Not having children, necessarily—she has one, an 8-year-old daughter named Dahlia, and has no plans for another—but just the experience of growing a human being beneath her heart.

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By William Heisel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, January 3, 2008

Troubled by the health history and backgrounds of some anonymous egg and sperm donors, leaders in the fertility industry have said in recent weeks that they would create a national registry to track donors and birth outcomes.

In response to a Dec. 9 article in The Times about a child born with a terminal genetic disease, representatives from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, a fertility industry organization, said they intend to record the histories of donors and surrogate mothers to help prevent such tragedies.

Monday, April 30, 2007 , CBC News

Some Canadian couples trying to conceive say the country's laws prohibiting compensation for egg donors is driving them underground or across the border.

Although it is illegal to compensate egg donors in Canada, women told CBC News they would undergo a fertility drug cycle that usually results in about 20 human eggs for $5,000 and $7,000.

Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sunday, August 5, 2007

Trusting another woman — a perfect stranger no less — to carry her baby may be the most difficult challenge of Jerri Christensen’s life.

“I do trust that she’ll do the best thing for the pregnancy,” she said of her surrogate. “But you still wonder, ‘What are they doing today ?’”

Like a number of prospective parents struggling with infertility, the Kansas City, Kan., woman found a surrogate mother in Arkansas, just outside Little Rock.