First Pizza, now progeny:

ordering babies online and the

future of human reproduction

Jason Behrmann, PhD

CEO, Founder
Gourmet Chez Toi

I want to be a parent

Surrogacy: reproductive
labour

Abroad

Home
Fertility
Clinic

Mail

Surrogacy
Centre

Baby

First pizza, now progeny: baby take-out

Modern-day science fiction?

Billion dollar
industry
and growing!

Baby farms

Scaleable?
Lessons learned from a
pivot

Entrepreneurship:
Problems are actually
opportunities

Benefits of take-out surrogacy

Streamlined surrogacy
Remove unnecessary difficulties

Remove barriers to reproduction

Costs, restricted mobility, discriminatory
policies

Surrogacy as legitimate business

(controversial)
Empower surrogates?

Risks of take-out surrogacy

Regulations: What regulations?
Complex, international law

Out-of-sight surrogates
Hidden exploitation?

Reproduction as a commodity; price on

life

What is the future of

human reproduction?

Is this a future
we want?

Take home message

International surrogacy will grow
Geographical borders; citizenship
Possibility for disconnect with
reproduction
Future families WILL be dramatically
different

ANNEX

Assisted reproduction: here and

now
Bio-banking
reproductive
materials

Surrogacy
Third party reproduction

Take-out
reproduct
ion

Reproductive
tourism
industry