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The country of Georgia is continuing to move forward with its plan to put a stop to commercial surrogacy<\/a>, but putting an end to the exploitative practice is proving to be incredibly difficult, as women have indicated their preference to simply move to Albania.<\/p>\n

Last year, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili announced that lawmakers were considering a draft law to only allow altruistic surrogacy \u2014 where would-be parents cannot pay a surrogate mother for the use of her body \u2014 and restrict it solely to Georgian citizens. According to New Lines Magazine<\/a>, just 5% of prospective parents are Georgian nationals. The overwhelming majority of people using Georgian women as surrogates are foreigners.<\/p>\n

The magazine interviewed one woman at a surrogacy clinic, Mariam, who was looking to be part of her second surrogate pregnancy \u2014 and her goal was to better provide for her children. \u201cSurrogacy is hard. It\u2019s a big pressure and responsibility to carry someone else\u2019s child,\u201d she said. \u201cBut in Georgia, there aren\u2019t enough jobs to move forward and do all the things I need to do for my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrogates are said to be paid between $17,000 to $22,000, a large sum of money in a country where a waiter earns less than $5,000 per year.<\/p>\n

Dr. Keti Gotsiridze, who founded Chachava\u2019s Reproductive Health Center, told New Lines that she doesn’t understand the problem people have with surrogacy. \u201cDoctors in many European countries who are so against it, I cannot understand them,\u201d Gotsiridze said. \u201cWhen they see their patients on the edge of a nervous breakdown doing 15, 20 IVF attempts, why will they not give them this option?\u201d While it’s undoubtedly difficult to see parents struggle with infertility, there is no mention of the children<\/em> who will be born through the process, and what their rights are.<\/p>\n

Ukraine was one of the most popular countries in the world<\/a> for the surrogacy industry; like Georgia, poverty is a major factor, with surrogacy allowing women to be given large sums of money for the use of their bodies. And also like Georgia, lawmakers are looking to stop commercial surrogacy<\/a>, all while foreigners continue seeking Ukrainian surrogates despite Russia’s ongoing war. Many, however, moved to seek surrogates from Georgia instead, with the Ministry of Health estimating the number of babies born via surrogacy has doubled in the five years leading up to 2022. Most of the surrogates are single mothers, and come from poor backgrounds. And it’s for this exact reason that many deride surrogacy as exploitative and unethical for women. The would-be parents are typically wealthy, and the women serving as surrogates are typically low-income. The reverse situation is exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n

But, as New Lines reported, putting a stop to surrogacy in Georgia will likely have little effect on the surrogacy trade overall; already, Albania is looking to fill the vacuum. Parents are moving their embryos from Georgia to Albania, with clinics also looking to jump in. \u201cOutlaw these arrangements in one country and it just makes for a profitable market elsewhere,\u201d Carolina Marin Pedreno, a U.K.-based family lawyer, said. While this is unfortunately true, all that means is that more world governments need to intervene to put an end to the exploitative practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only recommend doing surrogacy if a person is mentally strong,\u201d Alessia, a single mother in Georgia who has been a surrogate twice, said. New Lines reported that she needed therapy afterwards to help overcome attachment issues. \u201cBut when you need finances there is no other way.”<\/p>\n

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The country of Georgia is continuing to move forward with its plan to put a stop to commercial surrogacy, but putting an end to the exploitative practice is proving to be incredibly difficult, as women have indicated their preference to simply move to Albania. 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