{"id":104121,"date":"2021-07-16T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104121"},"modified":"2021-07-16T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:17:27","slug":"neolife-a-portrait-of-a-professional-baby-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104121","title":{"rendered":"(Neolife) A Portrait of a professional baby maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to stories about prolific gamete donors, it\u2019s typically sperm donors and sperm banks who get the attention for producing donor siblings families in the dozens\u2014and sometimes in the hundreds. In recent years, stories have surfaced about donor siblings connecting through private Facebook groups, and often finding their donors through DNA tests<\/a>. Who can forget the 2013 Vince Vaughn comedy, Delivery Man<\/em>, about a childless man having a midlife crisis who discovers that he had fathered over 500 kids conceived with sperm he donated in his youth. These are the extreme consequences of the age of \u201ccollaborative reproduction<\/a>,\u201d a term coined by the late John Robertson, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Texas at Austin, to describe the expanded array of civil rights for LGBTQ+ families, lifestyle choices, and medically assisted methods of reproduction available to <\/sup>21st century families. A large and growing component of collaborative reproduction is the increasingly open roles that surrogates and gamete donors often play in these modern families.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s less common, however, to hear stories of such prolific egg donors like Tyra. At a time when so many Millennials like her have become less interested in marriage and children and are also delaying having children for their careers, she is a new kind of female fertility archetype: nurturing and distant at the same time. She fulfills her sense of altruism and her desire to procreate, but in a directly transactional way, selling access to her body and body parts for her own financial gain and freedom. \u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s 50 percent business, 50 percent having a purpose,\u201d she says. \u201cI never fall into a career. I always thought I\u2019d be a professional athlete between volleyball and golf. And I got my pilot\u2019s license at a young age, but I never fell into my niche. I feel like maybe procreating for others is it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With 27 biological children and three surrogate pregnancies under her belt, it\u2019s all business as usual for Tyra Reeder.https:\/\/t.co\/P9V4PthXDW<\/a><\/p>\n

— NEO.LIFE (@NEOdotLIFE) July 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n