{"id":297944,"date":"2023-09-08T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297944"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:55:02","slug":"illegal-surrogacy-ring-busted-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illegal-surrogacy-ring-busted-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal surrogacy ring busted in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police in Thailand raided three health care facilities last week in an attempt to crack down on an illegal surrogacy ring in Bangkok.<\/p>\n

According to Thaiger<\/a>, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) conducted the raid, which resulted in one arrest. Investigators said that the illegal ring secretly paid Thai women to carry children who were sent to customers overseas after birth.<\/p>\n

Though surrogacy is allowed in the country for couples who are experiencing fertility problems, commercial surrogacy is completely outlawed. All forms of surrogacy \u2014 in which a woman is hired to grow a baby and then give that baby up while she is essentially discarded \u2014 are dehumanizing<\/a>, turning women, especially those living in impoverished nations or who are financially unstable, into mere commodities to be used. In addition, in many cases, surrogacy denies a child his or her biological mother and\/or father, and by design removes the child from the care of the woman who carried and birthed the child\u00a0\u2014 the voice and heartbeat the baby seeks out instinctively at birth.<\/p>\n

As the Thaiger<\/a> news outlet reports, surrogacy also comes with a host of other ethical issues. “Illegal surrogacy creates several societal issues, such as human trafficking markets, where children born from surrogacy may be sold for organ trafficking, prostitution, or the sex industry. In many instances, children born with physical disabilities are abandoned, a dehumanizing act that infringes upon human rights.”<\/p>\n