From GlobalPost:
Babe 101, operating in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Taiwan, is blunt in its mission. While other agencies shun women seeking surrogacy for the sake of beauty and convenience, Babe 101 welcomes them. For women with eggs incapable of in-vitro fertilization, the outfit presents a gallery of lovely ovum donors with desirable DNA posing in jean shorts by a pool.
Though legal in the United States, and thriving in India, surrogacy for profit is largely banned in Asia. Most governments ”” Thailand and Taiwan included ”” are uneasy with the tricky ethics of wealthy couples paying comparatively poorer women to bear their children.
But, according to Thai police, Babe 101 signals the rise of a new phenomenon: surrogate rings cutting costs through human trafficking. Police have shut down the agency, now accused of deceiving at least a few of its surrogate moms with guarantees of unrelated jobs.
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