Male couple granted legal parentage of a baby born through an unlawful Chinese surrogacy arrangement in which they would receive a refund if the baby was a girl.

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This is disgusting. These men have no moral compass and the law does nothing.

www.thetimes.com/article/2c8eb5d1-a22d-464c-b0e5-9d2a014d542a?shareToken=2b1c87683cdc202bf234fb860c960451
The couple’s surrogacy agreement stipulated the use of genetic testing during the IVF process to allow for sex selection, so that male embryos could be prioritised and transplanted into the surrogate mother’s womb first.

The contract also stated that the couple would be given a partial refund if a girl was born rather than a boy.

Italy has made all surrogacy illegal. You cannot bring a child created by surrogacy overseas into the country. Here people are blatantly open about it.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2026/279

Here is the full judgment for anyone who's interested.

This is so concerning. I have emailed my MP as suggested by the Surrogacy Concern website.

surrogacyconcern.uk/take-action-send-a-letter-to-your-mp-on-international-surrogacy-cases-coming-to-the-uk/

Where's my Mummy ?
Do I have a Mummy ?
Why haven't I got a Mummy ?

I do hope they have some good answers at the ready. Poor child.

Time for the law to be the same in the UK.

I'm not sure the lack of a female parent is the issue here!

Thank you for this. I have emailed my MP.

Whilst I don't agree with the outcome, I'm struggling to see another outcome that would have been preferable.

Haul them to Court. Sentence them to custodial sentences. Make them find and compensate the mother. Punitively high compensation. Have them serve their sentences consecutively so the poor kid at least has a home.

I think it's probably an issue here. Simply because they are misogynists. Men who hate women shouldn't raise any child.

Yeah, that comment, and a lot of this thread , stinks of homophobia.

and before anyone jumps down my throat accusing me of defending these particular disgusting men or surrogacy in general, I am not (obviously)

What happens to the child in that case?

Seriously? Using claims of homophobia to silence posters talking about the human trafficking of children?
Have a word with yourself.

Italians don't do it any more.

I made explicitly clear I wasn’t silencing anyone or condoning human trafficking, surrogacy, or those men .
Have a word with yourself (and maybe learn to read)

It is one of the issues because the child does have a mother only the child is not allowed any contact. This is one of the issues about males using surrogacy whether a gay couple or a single male. Up until recently it was inconceivable that children could have no mother. It is preposterous imo. I have no problem with gay adoption btw. Adopted children know who their mother is even while not being raised by her.

What. the. FUCK.

Inhuman. This is inhuman.