In a small hotel outside Kiev
Lying in rows of cots in a small hotel on the outskirts of Kiev, 51 babies born to surrogate mothers are stranded in Ukraine as the coronavirus lockdown is preventing parents from the United States, Europe and elsewhere from collecting them.
In other words the disgusting practice of renting human incubators (who just happen to be women, and not trans women at that) has resulted in 51 babies with no parents in the midst of a pandemic.
Interesting that exploiters of women choose Ukraine as their human incubator supplier. That couldn’t be because Ukraine is so desperate and vulnerable could it?
Ukraine imposed a ban on foreigners entering in March, and most parents have only seen their newborns through pictures and video calls with the clinic.
“Parents” my ass.
The Hotel Venice belongs to the clinic BioTexCom, which released video footage of the babies to raise public awareness and spur the government into acting more quickly.
Reaction from the authorities was swift.
Lyudmyla Denisova, the human rights ombudsman for the Ukrainian parliament, said the video showed the country had a “massive and systemic” surrogacy industry where babies were advertised as a “high quality product”.
Fuckin’ A.
The Hotel Venice is surrounded by a high fence with barbed wire. The building is usually where parents stay while picking up their babies. At BioTexCom, a surrogate mother receives about $15,000-$17,000.
For nine months of hard work and discomfort culminating in childbirth.
“The children are all provided with food, a sufficient number of employees look after them, but there is no substitute for parental care,” said Denis Herman, BioTexCom’s lawyer.
A bit late for that.
Jeezis.
Not just Ukraine — there seem to be a number of time-share/surrogate womb-product in rural southern Oregon, hung up from their forever-homes by travel restrictions. Marketing here seems to be aimed at Asia, presumably with further attraction of anchor-baby status.
In what other line of work is 17,000 USD for nine months work which could have killed you considered reasonable compensation?
Hey, don’t worry. I’m sure rich white couples from many Western democracies will be glad to swoop in and snatch those pretty white babies up for international adoption. ARRRRGH.
I’m still baffled as to why people choose surrogacy over adoption. Are your genes really so important that they need to be propagated?
It’s probably similar to the reasons people use all sorts of reproductive technology: IVF, sperm donors, egg donors, and so on. I agree that too high a value is placed on biological descent.
I suppose also the issue with adoption is the “stranger” aspect. Worries about inborn personality problems and the like, that might be more difficult to deal with in an adopted child.