“A Gift of Children” – Thursday, August 31st, 2000

For many Canadians, surrogacy is a controversial issue. Should a woman be expected to relinquish the child to which she has just given birth? Is it fair to the infant to be taken from the only mother he or she knows? Should women be paid to carry another women’s child?

Some call it “baby selling.” Others see it as the rich renting the wombs of the poor. But Sally and her husband of Stratford call it a gift.

“It’s nine months of my life to give two people a family,” said Ms.Rhoads.