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Travel bans have prevented parents of young children from entering the country and one official said up to 1,000 young children will be born before restrictions are lifted.
By Andrew E. Kramer
MOSCOW – Babies lie in cribs, sleep, cry or smile at nurses, wrapped in blank and supposedly well-groomed sheets, but separated from their parents as a result of involuntary coronavirus-like prohibitions.
Dozens of young children born in Ukraine’s burgeoning surrogacy sector are stranded in the country because their biological parents in the United States and other countries cannot recover them after birth. young children.
Authorities say at least one hundred young children are already stranded and that up to 1,000 can be born before the ban on foreigners in Ukraine is lifted.
“We will do everything we can to unite young people with their parents,” Albert Tochilovsky, director of BioTexCom, Ukraine’s largest provider of surrogate gestation services, said in a telephone interview. draw attention to the problem.
“I am in a difficult situation,” he said. “Hundreds of parents are calling me. I’m tired. “
Ukraine does not count surrogate gestation statistics, but may be the world leader in the number of surrogate births of foreign biological parents, Tochilovsky said. The HS society expects around 500 births. Fourteen companies offer service in Ukraine.
Ukraine is an exception among nations, but not the only one, by allowing foreigners to gain advantages from a wide variety of reproductive fitness services, adding egg buying and organizing to ensure that surrogate mothers have children for a fee. prospered largely because of poverty.
“Europe’s cheapest surrogate gestation is in Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe,” says the BioTexCom website. Surrogate mothers in Ukraine earn about $15,000.
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