CrazyExpat Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thailand's interim parliament has passed a law that bans foreigners from seeking surrogacy services to end a "rent-a-womb" industry that made the Southeast Asian country a top destination for fertility tourism.Thailand was rocked by several surrogacy scandals last year and an outcry followed the case of an Australian couple — one of whom is a convicted child sex offender — who left a male twin surrogate baby with Down Syndrome in Thailand, bringing only his sister back to Australia. The couple at the center of the story of "Baby Gammy," and the surrogate mother told conflicting stories of how the infant came to be left behind.Another case involved a Japanese man who fathered at least at least 16 babies using Thai surrogates in what local Thai media called the "baby factory".Thailand gave preliminary approval in August for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a crime. The draft passed its first reading in November and parliament voted 160 to 2 to pass the law Thursday night."This law aims to stop Thai women's wombs from becoming the world's womb. This law bans foreign couples from coming to Thailand to seek commercial surrogacy services," Wanlop Tankananurak, a member of Thailand's National Legislative Assembly, told Reuters. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/20/thailand-bans-surrogacy-for-foreigners.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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