Pretty Soon They'll Have Embryos On Etsy
As for the current story, hellooo, legal complications!

From the NY Post's Dana Schuster:

Lisa, a mom desperate to give her son a little brother, is looking to trade embryos with another mom. Doing so, she's wading into legal territory colored in shades of gray, experts say.

Only a handful of states -- including Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Georgia -- have passed legislation regarding embryo donation. (New York is not among them.)

Georgia was the first to allow embryo-adopting parents to file for a final order of adoption once a child is born. In states without laws, couples who adopt embryos rely solely on private legal contracts.

According to Kimberly Tyson, program manager of the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center in Colorado, the general "law of the land is that the woman who gives birth to the baby is legally the baby's mother on the birth certificate." (This is complicated by surrogates, although typically a pre-birth order is drafted to assign parentage.)

I would suggest that prospective embryo traders consider that any or all of this could be overturned.

Think, "Oh, pshaw!" (perhaps because you talk like someone in "Little House on The Prairie")?

Consider that a sperm donor was ordered to pay child support. This was reversed -- but how 'bout that fun court battle?!