Salt Lake City Tribune, January 23, 2005
"[Soon] I'll be getting pregnant. I see pregnant women walking around and I get excited, thinking, 'That's going to be me,'" says Young, her sunny disposition showing no hint of the personal sacrifices she is making.
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Young was matched with the couple through a Nevada surrogacy agency that works only with Japanese couples. She has exchanged e-mails with her "IP's," or intended parents. And if all goes as planned, she will meet them in Reno on Oct. 10. The next day, embryos created in a petri dish from the Japanese man's sperm and an anonymous donor's egg will be transferred into her uterus.
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In Japan, surrogacy is treated as if it were illegal, driving infertile couples to the United States, where state laws vary but it tends to be more loosely regulated.
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