So what does a lawyer have to do with fertility? Steve Snyder, IARC’s director, explained the answer to that question yesterday as a guest on Health Radio’s talk show about fertility myths.

When asked about a lawyer’s involvement in an assisted fertility birth, Steve said that when establishing the legal parentage of the resulting children, the legal issues become paramount and almost primary to the medical issues. Typically, the biological mother carries the child and gives birth to the child, alleviating any kind of issue with the right of parentage, but in a surrogacy case, the biological mother has nothing to do with the gestation and birth of the baby.

Essentially, the law becomes more important than the medicine.

Hear all of Steve’s interview (about 10 minutes) here: http://www.healthradio.net/component/mtree/Health-Radio-Shows/Ask-Dr-2E-DeSilva/Fertility-Myths-Answered-41605/details