@Thedogscollar @DannyZukosSmile surrogacy in U.K. is rare compared to the hundreds of babies being bought abroad in poor countries ( Georgia, Ukraine, Africa etc) these babies don’t hear their purchasers voice as they are in a different country until birth often thrown in a nursery until the purchasers arrive and hand over the cash for the baby and take it home.
sorry if this doesn’t fit your nicey-nice all sunshine and roses narrative but it’s the reality for so many babies born of surrogacy.
Almost two-thirds of all UK parental orders – legal rights conferred on parents who have commissioned a child from a surrogate – are now for a baby born overseas. In the past three years, more than 1,000 UK couples and individuals have secured the services of surrogates abroad, the highest number from any European country
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/the-stranded-babies-of-kyiv-and-the-women-who-give-birth-for-money
Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies. a month on, some 50 babies remain in the hotel and the saga is casting a harsh spotlight on the ethics and scale of the booming commercial child-bearing industry in Ukraine. Ukraine’s ombudsman for children, has now said reforming a system he described as a violation of children’s rights was not enough and that surrogacy services for foreign couples in Ukraine should be banned.
In a cash-strapped economy however, where the average wage is £300 a month and the war with Russia and its proxies continues, many impoverished women, especially in small towns and rural areas, are still lining up to carry babies for money, even if they are paying a heavy health and psychological price
and this is what U.K. people are doing. Not this ‘wonderful’ experience in the U.K.
Surrogacy in Georgia
Seven months into her pregnancy and battling dizziness and side effects of medicine to ward off a miscarriage, 38-year-old Nino is breathing heavily as she perches on the edge of a bed in her three-room apartment outside the Georgian capital. She is carrying twins, and the doctor has advised her to stay in bed. Her three children share the housework when Nino is unwell, and laundry is hanging on clotheslines all around. Her husband works, but his income is unstable. The rent, of 600 laris ($218) a month, "is eating us up," she says. "That's why I agreed to surrogacy; maybe, somehow, I can buy a small house.
surrogacy is an increasingly conspicuous, homegrown industry that has flourished in Georgia under a loose legislative and regulatory framework seemingly aimed at capitalizing on rising global demand and a reluctance in other countries to embrace birthing-for-hire
After giving birth this time, Nino says, she'll tell the neighbors that her newborn son died
While they initially parrot the typical mantra of helping infertile couples have children, these women eventually admit that they become gestational surrogates to get out of poverty or leave abusive situations. Some surrogate carriers have minimal survival options and surrogacy agencies in Georgia convince them that this opportunity is bound to change their lives. Women who are homeless or who live in shelters and safe houses are usually targets of these agencies. The exploitation situation is obvious