Despite the government crackdown, the surrogacy services and agencies are flourishing in China and doing profitable business.
Beijing, April 8/Nationalturk – The surrogacy services and agencies are flourishing in China despite official crackdown and closing down of some surrogacy service agencies by the officials.
According to Chinese newspaper, Global Times, the surrogacy market in Beijing is still flourishing. “Although most agencies had stopped surrogacy services due to government crackdown but many are still open and rendering services to people”.
“We can still provide a surrogacy service. It is hard for the government to discover us and collect evidence,” said an employee of Tianjiao surrogacy agency Feng (nor her real name).
She said even if they are caught by officials while the surrogate is undergoing the insemination procedure, they can negotiate a settlement for refund to the customers. “However, that’s rare, because we have some connections with top officials,” she said adding their agency know how to avoid attracting attention from the authorities.
The cost for the surrogacy service in China, according to her, is around 700,000 yuan ($112,910), including about 180,000 yuan payment for the surrogate. “The surrogate agencies also offer sex selection of foetus, for which the customer has to pay 150,000 yuan extra”.
“We select the right type of sperm so that baby must be a boy. And if that technology fails, the baby’s gender can be easily told after three months of pregnancy, so if it’s not a boy, the surrogate can abort it, it’s as easy as that,” Feng said.
‘Surrogate mothers are mostly young girls’
She said the surrogate mothers they hire are mostly young girls (age ranging from 22 to 32). “Some of the surrogate mothers are college graduates, who cannot find a job and some are even high school graduates. Before surrogating process starts, all the would-be mothers have to undergo a health check. If the customers do not trust our information, they can have them (surrogate mothers) checked again at their own cost”.
Feng said the agencies provide three to four surrogates for one customer to choose from. “They are at least 162 centimeters tall, and weigh under 58 kilograms. Unlike the traditional ways of getting pregnant, it’s easier for thinner people to become successfully pregnant using artificial means,” she said.
She claimed that they can arrange the birth at top-ranked hospitals which are certified for artificial reproduction, of which Beijing has 16, because they have connections with them.
Ma Jinzhen, a marriage lawyer from Beijing Tongchuan Law Firm, it is hard to discover the surrogate agencies. “Sometimes they hide behind another company like a beauty parlour. Once such cases are discovered, they can be punished for not carrying out the business they are registered as doing, but they will only be penalized financially, not criminally for that,” she added.
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Faiz Ahmad / NationalTurk China News
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