Wombs for hire: the painful price of Asia’s baby trade
The News
The article highlights the emotional and personal costs of commercial surrogacy in Asia, focusing on a Thai surrogate mother named Nicha who must give up the baby she carried to the father in China. The father's Chinese grandparents had limited family size due to population control policies. The narrative underscores the difficult realities and human toll of the cross-border baby trade.
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Nicha may never see the baby she gave birth to again.
The child will be handed over to her father to be raised in China.
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Key findings
The child will be handed over to her father to be raised in China.
Opinion- Nicha may never see the baby she gave birth to again.
- The child will be raised by grandparents, not the surrogate.
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Loaded language removedAs the car bounces along a rural Thai road, a baby just a few months old watches the emerald green countryside rush by from Nicha’s* lap, oblivious to the countdown that has already begun. Soon the child will be handed over to her father to be raised in China by grandparents whose own hopes of a larger family were curtailed by decades of state population control.
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The child will be handed over to her father to be raised in China.
OpinionThe father's parents had their hopes of a larger family curtailed by decades of state population control.
OpinionNicha may never see the baby she gave birth to again.
PredictionCommercial surrogacy has a painful price.
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