‘Renting our wombs is the family business’

Apr 30, 2016 by

by Alasdair Baverstock, Mailonline:

Four sisters from the SAME family make £10,000 a year having babies for gay European couples in Mexico’s secret surrogacy trade.

The four sisters stand gossiping underneath the washing line, the growing baby bumps visible under tightly-fitting tops.

But the unemployed Hernandez sisters are not looking forward to the birth of much-wanted babies. Instead, they are ‘wombs-for-hire’ – willing to put their bodies through agony in order to earn thousands from desperate Europeans, prepared to pay more than these single mothers could earn in 20 years for their chance to have their own biological child.

This is a family business – one which is not discussed outside the walls of the home, just one cog in Mexico’s secretive, and sometimes corrupt, surrogacy industry.

‘Our neighbours accuse us of running an infant trafficking ring,’ shrugs Martha, who is four months pregnant with a baby being ‘bought’ by a gay Frenchman.

‘But we’re all unemployed single mothers taking care of our own futures.’

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