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Surrogacy in sentence

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So it is necessary to clarify what is at stake in how we regulate – or de-regulate – in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg sales, and surrogacy.
(Gay men will still be barred, because they would require a surrogate, and surrogacy remains prohibited.)
LONDON – The global trade in babies born through commercial surrogacy is slowly being shut down.
But the determination of countries that have historically been centers of commercial surrogacy to stop the practice underscores the naiveté of that position.
It is no coincidence that the countries cracking down on cross-border surrogacy are those in which the practice takes place.
Consider India, where the surrogacy industry is valued at $400 million per year; until recently, some 3,000 fertility clinics were operating in the country.
And yet, as worries have mounted that commercial surrogacy leads to human trafficking and the exploitation of women, India’s authorities have concluded that the ethical concerns outweigh the economic benefits.
The earliest drafts of the legislation actually encouraged commercial surrogacy, mandating that mothers employed as surrogates surrender their babies.
For example, in one case, Germany – where surrogacy is illegal – refused to accept twin children of a German father born to an Indian surrogate, while India demurred at giving the father an exit visa so that he could remove the children.
In October 2015, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, under pressure from the country’s Supreme Court, declared that international commercial surrogacy was unconstitutional.
To be sure, India is not the only country involved in cross-border surrogacy.
Indeed, Indian regulations limiting surrogacy services to heterosexual couples who have been married for at least two years had already caused some of the trade to relocate, most notably to Thailand.
But there, too, attitudes have been shifting, especially after an Australian couple refused to take responsibility for a baby born through surrogacy who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome.
As a result, it has become harder to deny that cross-border surrogacy is akin to selling babies.
In August 2015, Thailand restricted surrogacy to couples in which at least one partner holds Thai nationality.
As in India, surrogacy touched a deep nerve in Thailand, where some see it as neo-colonialist exploitation, with babies as the raw commodities being extracted for the benefit of Westerners.
And some reports indicate that Cambodia’s interior ministry intends to treat commercial surrogacy as human trafficking, with a potential prison sentence.
Nepal, too, has declared a moratorium on surrogacy, after some in the country denounced the practice as exploitative.
In April 2015, after an earthquake struck Kathmandu, Israel evacuated 26 babies born through surrogacy, but left their mothers – most of whom had crossed over from India – stranded in a disaster zone.
And in Mexico, the state of Tabasco, the only jurisdiction in the country where surrogacy is legal, has restricted it to Mexican heterosexual married couples in which the wife is infertile.
During the legislative debate, Deputy Veronica Perez Rojas denounced surrogacy as a “new form of exploitation of women and trafficking.”
There is the risk, of course, that the ongoing international clampdown will drive commercial surrogacy underground.