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Thailand closes door on commercial Surrogacy

Thailand has a new legislation banning  commercial surrogacy. Thai women will henceforth not be allowed to collect  payment from foreigners looking for surrogates.This follows the high profile case of baby Gammy in which an Australian couple refused to take responsibility for one their children born through a Thai surrogate because he was diagnosed with Down syndrome. The Thai woman was delivered of twin babies, the couple decided to take the healthy baby girl back to Australia with  them leaving the brother behind with the surrogate mother because he was diagnosed with Down syndrome.  This new law is a bid for the Thai Government to end the rent-a-womb industry that has in the past years made Thailand a top destination for fertility tourism. The new law stipulates that any one taking payment for surrogacy could face up to 10 years jail term, nevertheless the country has not altogether banned surrogacy as Thai couples who genuinely can't have children can employ the help of surrogates so  long the surrogates are 25 years or over and no payments involved.


Baby Gammy and 21 year old surrogate mum

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