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Is it friendly or impactful? At the currently closed Venice hotel in Kiev, 46 surrogate babies await their new parents. A video shows babies lying in rows in a large room screaming for a bet. They are stranded here because they cannot be released to their new parents due to the crown crisis.
Who runs this baby factory? The mediator is the BioTexCom clinic in Kiev, which describes itself as the “center of human reproduction”. Parents pay between CHF 6,800 and CHF 68,000 for the service. Commercial surrogacy, in which a woman carries a child for someone else for money and then hands it over, is prohibited in most European countries, not Ukraine.
Video contact
In the video, a woman with a face mask sends a message to her parents: «Dear parents, my name is Marina, I am an administrator at the Venice Hotel. Our babysitters look after your babies in a nursery 24 hours a day. They go out with them every day and bathe them.
According to the video, the stranded babies come from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, China, Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria and Portugal. “We show parents babies online and tell them how much they eat, how they sleep, and how heavy they are,” the video says. It was heartbreaking to see the parents suffer so much. “We hope you can meet her soon.”
In the video, the surrogacy company urges parents to pressure Ukraine through their governments. The country must issue special permits to pick up children.
Stop traffic
Hearty or shocking? Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmila Denissova is horrified. It demands that the police and ministries immediately tighten the laws on foreign surrogacy. “Children should not be trafficked in Ukraine,” he said.
BioTexCom was already in the headlines in 2018 as the largest cheap baby supplier in Ukraine because a DNA analysis showed that the parents of desire and the child did not share any genetic material. Under Ukrainian law, at least one parent must be genetically related to the child.
Trisomy 21 no thanks
In Ukraine, the assisted reproduction business has been booming since commercial surrogacy was banned entirely in several countries or restricted to domestic partners. The legislative changes were sparked by a series of scandals.
The 2014 “Baby Gammy” case caused outrage across the world, when Australia’s wish parents were accused of leaving a boy with trisomy 21 with the Thai surrogate mother. Furthermore, the chosen father was a convicted sex offender.
