Surrogacy nightmare in Ukraine

May 17, 2020 by

by Michael Cook, Bio Edge:

Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realised that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so on.

But there is one disaster which is flying under the radar — the international surrogacy industry.

The hot spot of international surrogacy is Ukraine. Commercial surrogacy is legal there; the medical facilities are good; the cost is relatively low; and poor young women are plentiful. Asian countries like Indian, Nepal, Thailand and Cambodia no longer welcome couples from overseas.

Ukraine also recognises the commissioning parents as the biological parents and places no limit on how much a surrogate may be paid.

An estimated 500 couples come to Ukraine every year to take delivery of their babies. But then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. In Ukraine, as everywhere else, the borders closed, with the infants on one side, the parents on the other. Surrogacy agencies were literally left holding the baby.

The results can be seen in this breath-taking video from BioTexCom, a surrogacy agency in Kiev – probably the biggest in the country. It certainly has the most aggressive marketing.

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