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The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
Smith had previously dated but told her psych evaluator that “it doesn’t work when you are a single mom.” She spent her free time coaching her son’s sports teams; she ran errands on weekends when Ellis was with his dad, who remained a good friend. After losing a baby, women are often told, as Bi was, that these things “just happen.” Stillbirths take about 21,000 American children per year—more than guns, car accidents, sudden infant death syndrome, cancer, and fires combined. Sheel Mohnot, a venture capitalist friend of Bi’s who has commissioned twiblings, said the problem is that information is siloed when “each agency has their own database of wombs.” In this model, surrogates are the gestational equivalents of Uber drivers or Amazon warehouse workers.
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