World Seeks To Bypass Surrogacy Laws By Renting Wombs In War-Torn Ukraine – IOTW Report

World Seeks To Bypass Surrogacy Laws By Renting Wombs In War-Torn Ukraine

The desire to commission children has either blinded people to the tragedies of Ukraine’s womb rental service or numbed them to it.

FEDERALIST:
Ukraine may be embroiled in what could be the beginning of another world war, but its babymaking and womb-rental business is booming.

More than 2,000 babies are born to Ukrainian surrogates each year. Despite the country’s ongoing violent conflict with Russia, that number doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

“We’ve been trying to make the dream of having our own child come true for 10 years. It won’t be the bombs or the war that will stop us,” one Italian couple seeking a surrogate in Ukraine told The Guardian.

In Italy, much like most of Western Europe, surrogacy is illegal, and the Italian parliament is on its way to criminalizing commercial surrogacy arrangements abroad. Where surrogacy bans and restrictions fail, however, shady and exploitative Ukrainian fertility firms prevail. more

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