17 October 2015 (14:56 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Mehr 1394/03 Muharram 1436/05 Bing-Xu (9th month) 4713

“Parents from all over the world are coming to The Gem State to have children.”-KTVB, Boise, Idaho

“American women are being paid to put themselves at significant physical risk every day in this country to produce babies for others.These mostly low income women are injected with powerful hormones and other drugs to maximize chances of pregnancy, virtually without government oversight. Women didn’t get this far to be treated like breeding animals.”-Jennifer Lahl, Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

According to Surro Sisters for Brooke the Burley, Idaho, woman was gestating twins for a couple from Spain when she died from “a rare medical complication” on 08 October 2015.  This was not the first time she sold herself to be a surrogate fetus carrier (for legal reasons they now avoid the term surrogate ‘mother’).

Please note that Brooke’s own home town news media failed to mention that her pregnancy was not ‘hers’ but was a way of making money.

The Huffington Post is the one who found out about Brooke’s role in what is being called Baby Farming in Idaho.  The article pointed out that in Spain (where the paying parents are from) it is illegal to be a surrogate mother. Despite being paid to carry twins for the Spanish couple, a fund raiser was held to pay for her funeral!  It was through that fundraiser that the Huffington Post reporters discovered the Baby Farming deal.

A post by Jennifer Block reveals the downside of being a surrogate, and even reveals that women can make between “…$15,000 to $30,000 – for a job that is high-risk, 24/7, and lasts about a year, maybe more…” (THE OTHER SIDE OF SURROGACY. WHAT GESTATIONAL SURROGATES REALLY GO THROUGH.)

The Huff’ Post article estimates an 89% increase in U.S. women becoming surrogate gestators, primarily due to economic reasons.  Hard and fast data is not available because apparently Baby Farming is supposed to be ‘hush hush’.