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    Surrogate-Born Babies Wait In Ukraine Amid Coronavirus Travel Restrictions

    The pandemic has hit the global business of surrogate birthing, leaving many infants and their new parents thousands of miles apart.
    by Charles Maynes May 15, 2020 1 minute
    Nurses and newborns in Hotel Venice, a facility owned by BioTexCom clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Dozens of babies born to surrogate mothers are stranded in Ukraine as the coronavirus restrictions prevent foreign parents from collecting them.

    The coronavirus pandemic has hit the global business of surrogate birthing, leaving many infants and their new parents thousands of miles apart.

    In Ukraine, the company BioTexCom, which runs a human reproduction showing dozens of babies in rows of cots, apparently waiting for their parents to collect them.

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