The_Homeless_Guy: I assume the "two kids at a time" is just a result of the fertility clinic implanting two embryos into the surrogate. Double the chances of at least one surviving and twins aren't too high risk (obviously it gets bad once you get in 3+ territory). Keeps the parents from having to shell out another 10k. The age/twins make me think not natural and the fact that she is head of a surrogacy group (that oddly doesn't have a website) makes me think she went that route.

And you'd think (as I did) that if these twins were the result of laboratory intervention, that one would be ultra careful and treat them as Swarovski-crystal snowflakes.

My womb is a rocky place where my husband's seed could find no purchase (TMI, yeah) but I'm glad that I have a great stepson who calls me mom and I will legally adopt soon,even though he is 20 (his nutty egg donor wouldn't have signed off on it before if it would have saved his life). These kinds of stories really piss me off, though I've come to terms with being an evolutionary dead-end. As liberal as I am in many ways, I think I'd be ok with competency tests for parents. I see too many morons in the news treating their kids like trash when people (straight, gay, whatever) would be excellent parents and never get the chance. I don't know why I even read these stories.