The Surrogates Club
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In Canada many women volunteer to give birth to a stranger's child and do not get paid in return. Under Canadian laws, gestational surrogates receive only expenses in exchange for getting pregnant and carrying a baby for nine months. But, why do they do it? We meet the surrogate women to find out. We follow them as they navigate the emotional challenges of giving life to a baby that they will say goodbye to after birth, and we meet the families who will welcome home these special babies.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my God, did he have to push? |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, you got to push? |
| 0:06.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:07.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:10.0 | Get it out, get it out. |
| 0:12.0 | A delivery wrote room in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, that's it, oh my goodness. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:21.0 | Good work. Beautiful. Marissa is worried as the newborn fails to cry. But others here may be even more worried |
| 0:39.3 | than her, the baby's parents. |
| 0:50.0 | Because Marisa is delivering a baby that is not her own. She's a surrogate mother in Canada where women have babies for strangers for free. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, I love it. |
| 0:58.0 | It's just crazy that she's out in the world now. |
| 1:02.0 | I've just created a family. Like someone else's family. |
| 1:07.0 | The surrogate mother carries someone else's child. |
| 1:10.0 | Canadian law gives that child and the couple who supplied the embryo to the surrogate rights. |
| 1:16.0 | They are the legal parents. Their name is on the birth certificate. |
| 1:21.0 | The surrogate simply gives away the baby at birth and with it any parental rights at all. |
| 1:27.0 | This program is about why any woman would do such a thing. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey, hot mama! woman would do such a thing. |
| 1:33.0 | Hey, hot mama. |
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