When Thailand’s parliament passed a law banning most forms of surrogacy late last month, its main motivations were clear. Last year, two major scandals brought to a head longstanding concerns that Thailand wasn’t doing to enough to protect the women hired to bear children for other people and the children born through surrogacy. Last July, Thai media reported that an Australian couple had hired a Thai surrogate to bear twins but abandoned one of the babies — a boy — because he had Down Syndrome and a congenital heart problem. International media quickly confirmed the couple left “Baby Gammy” with …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
