Focus On Surrogacy in Entertainment: Friends S4 E11 - The One With Phoebe's Uterus

Focus on Surrogacy is a series where two surrogacy professionals with added personal experience react to surrogacy stories in entertainment, news, documentaries, and more. For our first episode, part 1 of a sequence, we react to "The One With Phoebe's Uterus" a Friends episode where the character Phoebe is introduced to the idea of being a surrogate for her family. We react and discuss issues such as why surrogacy is pursued, early thoughts and processes, eligibility to become a surrogate, family and friends' reactions, gestational surrogacy babies are not related, "giving up a baby", the intention of those involved, surrogacy in states without favorable laws, and emotions involved. #surrogacy #decisions #surrogate #NewYorkState #preperation #infertility #adogisnotababy #gestational #gestationalsurrogacy #familyreactions #friendreactions #rainbowlife #Friends #Phoebe #neverhadababy #notrelated #intentioniskey #canbeemotional #thebiggestgift #uterus #surrogacyprofessionals #personalexperience #surrogacyinentertainment #surrogacyinthenews #surrogacydocumentaries #focusonsurrogacy 0:00 - Series Intro 0:34 - Episode Intro 0:58 - Phoebe Is Asked to Be A Surrogate 2:20 - Family as a Surrogate 4:22 - Phoebe Announces to Friends 4:57 - Traditional / Gestational Surrogacy 5:22 - Things to Think About 5:42 - Have Your Own Child / Uncomplicated Birth 8:49 - Phoebe Talks with Concerned Birth Mom 10:49 - Intention in Surrogacy 12:38 - Birth Mom Gives Puppy as a Lesson 14:25 - Phoebe Struggles With Decision 15:44 - Psychological Screening / Evaluation 16:52 - Surrogacy in Unfavorable States 18:39 - Phoebe Decides to be Their Surrogate 19:24 - Surrogates Choose Who to Carry For 20:50 - Altuistic Surrogacy States