Ukraine’s Surrogacy Industry Has Put Women in Impossible Positions
When your job is carrying a baby for someone else, you can’t leave it behind.
by Alison Motluk
Mar 01, 2022
4 minutes
Nothing crystallizes the “her body, my baby” conundrum of surrogacy quite like a war. Should a surrogate be tucked away somewhere safe, to protect the child she’s growing for someone else? Or should she be with her own family, or in her hometown, or even out on the streets defending her nation?
That is a live question in Ukraine right now.
Ukraine is an international surrogacy hub, one of only a handful of countries in the world that allows foreigners to enter into surrogacy arrangements. That means people from the United States or China or Germany or Australia can go there and hire a local woman to gestate their child. There are conditions—the parents have to be straight and
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