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What is gestational surrogacy and how does it work?

Gestational surrogacy is the most common type of surrogacy today. Here, the surrogate is not biologically related to the baby she is carrying. Using in vitro fertilization(IVF), the embryo is created using the intended mother鈥檚 egg and the intended father鈥檚 sperm, then transferred to the surrogate鈥檚 uterus. Medicine specialist Dr. Nicholas Clark from Johannesburg, South Africa tells us more.

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