The scheme, according to the plea agreement, involved another specialist in reproductive law, in Maryland, and a woman in Las Vegas. They recruited women to be implanted with donor-created embryos in the Ukraine, and then halfway through the pregnancy claimed things had fallen apart and “shopped’ the babies to a new couple. That couple was usually charged about $100,000 in fees.
The Los Angeles Times draws our attention to the above video, in which Erickson cheerfully holds forth on infertility and the mind-body connection. She apparently wrote on Facebook, “Remember, any story can be spun and manipulated to make a story salacious. Yet know from the bottom of my heart that I have done the right things to protect some children from otherwise disastrous outcomes.” Being bought and sold before even being born doesn’t sound like a disaster at all!
Attorney Voices Regret At Being Part Of Baby-Selling Ring [LAT]
Three Plead Guilty In California Baby-Selling Ring [Macon]