ABSTRACT
In this chapter I recount a number of case histories from infertility clinics in the United States where I observed or worked over three and a half years, augmented with observations compiled from visits to infertility clinics and related sites in the United States and Europe over a decade. I discuss two technically identical procedures which lead to different kinds of kinship configurations— gestational surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization with ovum donation. Ovum donation and gestational surrogacy are compared in two different kinds of cases. In the first comparison the cases are non-commercial egg donation versus gestational surrogacy. In the second comparison, the cases also involve an intergenerational element. 1
