For me, being a mom has always been my greatest joy and the thing that I’m most proud of at the end of the day. In my early twenties, I watched a close friend face infertility struggles trying to start a family of her own, and it dawned on me:

As someone deeply committed to helping others, I want every woman or family I work with to be a success story. One standout story comes from the early days of Surrogacy Is. At the time, I served as a surrogate advocate, conducting initial screenings with women who were looking to

It looks great on The Kardashians. But the reality can be…messy. My husband worried I’d die. My sister asked if my organs would get harvested. My mom said I was being unfair to our family. And another relative asked, quite literally, how I was different than a prostitute. So, yeah. It’s

Sunshine Hanson, co-founder and president of Surrogacy Is, was looking to supplement her income as a high school English teacher, without adding many more hours of work to her already packed schedule, when she discovered gestational surrogacy. “I was looking for something meaningful I could do that wouldn’t take up

Earlier this week, Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy, claiming that the practice, which helps individuals and couples have children, exploits the women who carry them. That characterization couldn’t be further from the truth for Sunshine Hanson, a three-time gestational surrogate and founder of the surrogacy agency Surrogacy

The practice of surrogacy has long been controversial. Some argue it exploits women while others believe women deserve the power and agency to decide how they want to use their bodies, especially when strong contracts are in place to protect both the parents and the surrogate. In the United States,