{"id":328174,"date":"2025-03-19T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328174"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:37:13","slug":"conceiving-crime-victims-elaborate-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conceiving-crime-victims-elaborate-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceiving Crime: They wanted to help couples, but became victims of an elaborate scam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest episode of Live Action’s podcast, “Conceiving Crime<\/a>,” tells the story of Heather. She was already the mother of two children, and though she and her husband didn’t plan on having more children of their own, she loved being pregnant and decided she wanted to act as a surrogate for another couple who wanted a child.<\/p>\n

After she was contacted by a couple from Texas, Heather moved forward with the plans to carry a baby for them. However, two embryo transfers did not result in pregnancy and the couple backed out of the surrogacy contract. But Heather wanted to try again, so she was happy to get a message through an online surrogacy forum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was responding to anything and everything,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s how desperate I was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That message was from a woman who offered Heather the chance to travel internationally to be impregnated with an anonymous embryo. Heather was hesitant but became more comfortable with the idea when she learned that Kimberly, a mother of five, would be traveling to Ukraine with her to become a surrogate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n