This is a common ploy adopted by same sex couples, the privileged and also birth tourism customers. They have a child by renting a woman’s womb to carry it. This is morally horrendous and truly awful for the children produced by these arrangements.
Here is some brief testimony in the Texas state legislature against this practice:
All of that is true. Surrogacy is a horribly wrong idea yet it still exits .
Fred, I think the general public is unaware of how common this has become. We now have “designer” reproductive facilities facilitating all of this mess.