Global Times | December 15, 2024
Chinese authorities are investigating allegations that medical personnel, public officials, and a surrogacy agency worked together to conduct an underground operation involving egg retrieval and sale of birth certificates.
Khaosod English | December 13, 2024
Authorities in Thailand have arrested doctors and nurses alleged to be operating an illegal surrogacy ring for a Chinese couple.
Universiteit Leiden | December 11, 2024
Researchers in the Netherlands argue that the country needs legislation to regulate compensated surrogacy and to update parentage laws for those who have children through surrogacy.
Bloomberg News | December 5, 2024
Compensated surrogacy is banned in Hong Kong, but many people are traveling abroad seeking surrogacy arrangements and gamete donation––in part because IVF access in Hong Kong excludes single people and the LGBTQ community.
Taipei Times | December 4, 2024
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare will not include surrogacy in proposed amendments to the Assisted Reproduction Act due to opposition from women’s rights groups. This will allow legislative changes with broad support–making artificial insemination accessible to single women and women with same-sex partners–to move forward.
BBC | December 3, 2024
Thirteen pregnant women from the Philippines who were part of an underground surrogacy operation have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia and were sentenced to 4 years in prison once they give birth.
Rappler | December 1, 2024
Although surrogacy itself is not regulated in the Philippines, many surrogacy clinics illegally falsify birth certificates of children born via surrogacy to avoid the time-consuming process of changing parentage from the birth mother to intended parents.
Rappler | November 30, 2024
The surrogacy industry in the Philippines is growing, but without regulations to govern the practice, surrogates and intended parents have little protection from exploitation.
ThinkChina | November 22, 2024
Some Chinese intended parents travel to the US to have children via surrogacy because it operates in a legal gray area there. Others navigate the underground surrogacy industry in China, in which over a thousand “birth consultants” offer surrogacy services through illicit links to local hospitals.
Reuters | October 31, 2024
A regional Chinese health office launched an investigation after reports that a surrogacy agency abandoned a woman who was acting as a surrogate in an underground operation. Surrogacy is illegal in China.
