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We have little to no idea what is going on in jurisdictions such as Ukraine and Georgia, which have made themselves hotspots for human egg farming and surrogacy.
What is more, we don’t know if those eggs could be laundered in terms of origin and shipped off to Western jurisdictions.
You may have eggs collected in circumstances like this, with the paperwork fiddled to make it look like the eggs were collected in the West.
Fertility treatment in the West is full of dubious practice in and of itself, but it is not quite as blatant as kidnapping and enslaving.
One of the other things that is opaque about all this surrogacy in poor countries is the extent to which children are ordered and then left behind when they are born with complications and the buyers reject the child.
If you think I am kidding, consider this headline also from the past couple of weeks:
‘Tragedy of surrogate babies abandoned after parents changed their minds – including boy with Down’s syndrome left behind by couple who only wanted his twin sister’
Let’s look at some extracts from that story:
“In 2015, India announced a clamp down on the booming trade of foreigners struggling to conceive hiring young surrogate mothers after controversy over the ‘rent-a-womb’ exploitation of poor women.
“It came after a case in 2012 where an Australian couple were accused of leaving one of their twins behind in India after a surrogate birth because they ‘already had’ a child of the same gender and did not want another.”
That child was rejected for being the wrong gender.
The article goes on:
“In 2014, Australian couple David John Farnell and Wenyu Wendy Li paid a Thai woman, Pattaramon Chanbua, who lived 90km south of Bangkok, $16,000 AUD to act as their surrogate.
“The couple paid an extra $1,673 AUD when they first realised – three months into the pregnancy – that Ms Chanbua was having twins for them.
“However, few would have predicted just how the arrangement would fall apart, with Gammy’s story soon making global, heart-wrenching news.
“Ms Chanbua, then just 21, had given birth to twins Pipah, a girl, and Gammy, a boy, but the Farnells quickly found themselves at the centre of huge controversy when their birthing mother accused them of abandoning baby Gammy because the infant, born prematurely, had Down’s syndrome and a heart condition.”
The man involved in that case, David John Farnell, turned out to have historical child sex abuse convictions dating back to the 1980s.
When the Australian public found all this out, the Australian family had to go into hiding and a great deal of money was raised for the boy with Down’s Syndrome.
In previous Substacks, I have cited experts pointing out that fertility clinics will not pick up the bill if there are complications with any child.
This is why fertility medicine is so popular with healthcare companies all over the world. It is money for old rope and there is zero liability for sick children.
We find some things out about what happens in these opaque locations, but we don’t know about everything.
Clearly, Georgia is playing host to some unspeakable horrors.
What else is going on there that we don’t know about?
One final thought, and this is the most important part of this Substack article, we know through commentators such as Professor Robert Winston, that using IVF raises the chance of birth complications.
Given that some of these surrogacy cases are nothing to do with medical need, how many children are being maimed and potentially left with potential time bomb conditions by the drugs and procedures involved in IVF?
We would never know, because proving causation is almost impossible.
It’s one of the many dark arts of the fertility industry.
But we do know there are short-term and long-term risks associated with fertility treatment.
The parents who reject the sick child and take home the ‘healthy’ child may well find the ‘healthy’ child develops problems down the line.
Giorgia Meloni was absolutely right to outlaw surrogacy home and abroad.
Using fertility treatment when there is no medical need and using it for reasons of lifestyle is to roll the dice with a child’s life.
Let’s be unambiguous here. This lethal squalor of using fertility treatment when there is no medical need, or telling patients they are infertile when they are not in order to rack up an IVF sale, is literally gambling with human life.
The House always wins. And the children always lose.
Sometimes with their entire life.
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