Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now. A leader in the German governing coalition announced on social media that he and his husband had welcomed a new baby into their family, born via surrogacy in the U.S. But surrogacy in Germany is not legal, so this was a "for me but not for thee" hypocrisy moment there. (In general it's hard to…