# Surrogacy's rules are mostly a myth

> A yearlong CBS News investigation found the booming U.S. surrogacy industry runs with almost no protection for the women carrying the pregnancies.
- Title: Surrogacy's rules are mostly a myth · CBS News | Shortify
- Summary: A yearlong CBS News investigation found the booming U.S. surrogacy industry runs with almost no protection for the women carrying the pregnancies. Commercial…
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- Source: CBS News — https://cbsnews.com/video/testing-the-ethical-boundaries-of-surrogacy
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## Paid to carry a pregnancy
Commercial surrogacy means paying a woman to have fertilized eggs implanted in her uterus and carry the pregnancy to term. In the U.S. it is a growing business.
## What everyone assumes
Most people picture a tightly regulated field with contracts, oversight and medical safeguards built in at every step.
## The rules barely exist
A yearlong CBS News investigation found few, if any, meaningful protections for surrogates.

> few, if any, meaningful protections exist for surrogates
## A booming industry
Demand keeps climbing and the business keeps expanding, without the guardrails that growth would normally bring.
## Surrogates speak up
Correspondent Katrina Kaufman reports on women who say they went through troubling practices while carrying pregnancies for others.
## Who bears the risk
When oversight is thin, the person taking on the medical and financial danger is the woman carrying the child, not the agency or the intended parents.
## Key takeaway

Commercial surrogacy in the U.S. is far less regulated than most people assume, and surrogates carry the risk.