Articles from The New York Times (NYT) and Wall Street Journal (WSJ) expose severe ethical failures in the global surrogacy industry, highlighting exploitation, commodification, and the erosion of human dignity.

The New York Times report details a human trafficking ring targeting vulnerable Thai women, luring them to Georgia (a country located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia) under false promises of well-paid surrogacy work. The operation, often run by Chinese intermediaries, exploited Georgia’s lax regulations on surrogacy. Once these women get there, their passports are confiscated, they are put in overcrowded houses, and many are forced to take hormone injections for repeated egg harvesting, which are then sold on the black market for in vitro fertilization (IVF).

New articles in the NYT and WSJ shedding light on two dark sides of the surrogacy coin

On the one hand, a global market for pregnancy slavers has emerged

On the other, wealthy Chinese men are producing motherless children in droves so they can network like modern Habsburgs pic.twitter.com/dgFOeoluJV

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