Alysa Liu was conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) using her father Arthur Liu's sperm and an anonymous egg donor (who was Caucasian/white).
She was carried and born via gestational surrogacy (a surrogate mother with no genetic relation to her).
Her father, a single parent an extremely wealthy Chinese political immigrant, intentionally chose Caucasian egg donors for his five children (including Alysa and her siblings who are also coincidentally girls) to promote what he described as "benefiting" from a "diverse gene pool"

Arthur Liu is a single man who paid exorbitant amounts of money for the creation of multiple female children.

In the united states a person can pay for the full process of IVF with egg donation and gestational surrogacy as a single intended parent. This is fully legal in the state of california. And has occurred as early as 1990. The process is given the term assisted reproductive technology (ART). And has allowed for selection of genetic traits as well as gender.

There are no ethical obligations requiring clinics to provide or to refuse non-medical sex selection.


Base gestational surrogacy such as surrogate compensation, agency, legal document creation fees, insurance, expenses. Embryo creation, transfers, meds, monitoring. Egg donation compensation, agency, retrieval cycle, more legal fees for contract negotiations, psychological screening, travel, contingencies like lost wages or C-section bonuses for the surrogate, Runs $140,000–$350,000 per child based on average estimates.