Every year, between 2,000 and 2,500 children are conceived and given birth to by Ukrainian women for third parties in exchange for money; 90% are commissioned by foreign couples. With at least 33 private and 5 state-owned surrogacy clinics, Ukraine is a popular and low-cost destination for reproductive tourism.
Since the beginning of the war, the media has focused on parents who buy children worried about the safety of their babies in the theater of war. “The fate of Ukrainian surrogate mothers, on the other hand, does not interest anyone ,” criticizes the executive director of IMABE, Susanne Kummer, in the new Bioethik Aktuell.
Two harrowing media reports now focus attention for the first time on the plight of ” those women whose workplace is their body and who are being crushed between war and foreign interests,” says Kummer.
The Guardian newspaper, for example, reports that surrogate mothers have been urged by agencies to abort . Others are suffering abortions because of the dramatic situation of the war. “Who is looking after this young woman’s medical needs in the bombed-out homes and hospitals, no one asks?” Kummer said. De facto, women are not entitled to payment or compensation. Agencies only do this when she gives birth to a healthy baby , as stipulated in the contract. Many denounce that they are treated like “animals.”
The Kyiv-based agency BioTexCom currently holds 25% of the global surrogacy market. A child costs between 40,000 and 65,000 euros. Ukrainian women between the ages of 18 and 35, most of whom come from precarious social backgrounds, are hired to provide their bodies. Once pregnant with the foreign embryo, they are reunited in a flat far from their cities of origin and supervised by a supervisor who forces them to follow strict schedules.
They may also be contractually obligated to undergo potential abortions. They are lured by fees of 8,000 to 10,000 euros, three times a Ukrainian annual salary, but most of the income goes to the agencies. The human rights group La Strada receives 100 calls a year from abused Ukrainian surrogate mothers, some of whom claim that in the end they only received a few hundred euros from the agency as remuneration….
The above comes from a March 19 CNA Info Catolica story.
We told them so….
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Not everything you’re hearing about what’s going on in Ukraine is true. There are factions of Ukrainians opposed to Zelensky that are staging attacks and brutalizing Ukrainians from rival factions and making it look like Russians did it or attempting to put the blame on Russian troops. If you read a sob story report, it’s likely the Russians didn’t do it. Zelensky is trying to manipulate the media and Western leaders. Be very skeptical of what you read claiming Russian alleged atrocities. I’m not saying the Russians are innocent, just that people need to be skeptical of stories that blame Russia for everything happening in Ukraine.
And the first person of whom I will be skeptical is you, sir.
Why does CCD continue to publish Russian propaganda pieces from people like Be skeptical. They originate in Russia and China, not from California or from Catholics.There is no possible way Zllenskyy-opposed Ukrainians even POSESS the missiles and other armaments that are being sent into Ukrainian cities. Only be “skeptical” that Russians are responsible IF you want to cover up for a war criminal.And that makes you share in the criminality.
Another opinion make you run to your safe space?
Do you think Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian propaganda? Do you think President Biden is compromised because of his son’s dealings with Ukrainian businesses? Do you think the president’s son is a national security threat?
I don’t think hunter bidens laptop caused Putin to send at least 150k soldiers into a foreign country and shell into oblivion Ukrainian speaking and Russian speaking people i their homes. I dont think a laptop causes churches to be bombed, maternity hospitals ti be bombed, apartment buildings In the middle of residential neighborhoods to be bombed. That would be one powerful laptop, Intel’s finest!
YFC does tremble at opposing opinions and anything he dislikes he considers propaganda. He will not look into the Azov Brigades, self confessed Nazi’s (rea ones) they have been killing ethnic Russians for the past 5 years, nor will he admit that the so called Orange Revolution in 2014 was brought to you by a CIA sponsored regime change project, under Obama. Zelensky is no hero is thug how has jailed opposition candidates and shut down opposition media
YFC, Zelensky has banned all opposition political parties. That’s not Russian propaganda. That’s truth. Zelensky is not in favor of democracy nor freedom. There’s no reason for the United States to have any skin in Zelensky’s war with Russia.
There’s so much more to the conflict in Ukraine than the elite media are broadcasting and than what the elite commentators are spinning as their propaganda.
Don’t be a sheeple.
So what? He is barring Russian allied socialist political parties while the nation is in Marshall law after Russia attacks them wholesale. Does that justify bombing maternity hospitals and apartment complexes? Do you defend socialism and the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians?
You made your bed now sleep in it
Using women as surrogates is just another form of sex trafficking. It should not be legal at all.