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Ukraine is a global surrogacy hub - but that could be about to end

www.bbc.com·Sofia Bettiza·25 days ago
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Ukraine war 'led me to surrogacy' to earn money but a new law could end those plans 14 hours ago Sofia Bettiza, World Service Global Health Reporter, Kyiv and BBC News Ukrainian BBC Karina Tarasenko says she became a surrogate because of the war and now plans to have as many surrogate babies as possible Karina is six months pregnant, but the foetus inside her womb is not her own. The 22-year-old from eastern Ukraine is a surrogate, pregnant with an embryo from a Chinese couple's egg and sperm. At the age of 17 Karina's home was destroyed when her city, Bakhmut, became one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in the early phase of Russia's full-scale invasion. With most of the city turned to rubble and ash, she and her partner moved to Kyiv but they struggled to find steady work. It was when Karina was in a shop one day, with barely enough money to pay for bread and nappies for their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, that she decided to turn to paid surrogacy.…

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