A surrogacy scandal involving a Chinese couple under investigation for alleged child abuse is drawing attention to lax regulations allowing anyone — including foreign nationals — to hire an American woman to deliver their child.
Police initiated a child abuse investigation into 38-year-old Silvia Zhang and 65-year-old Guojun Xuan after a two-month old in their care was hospitalized with a head injury in May, a local law enforcement official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) subsequently removed 21 children from their custody, including some born from surrogates who worked with an agency called Mark Surrogacy.
Surrogacy agencies, operating with minimal legal accountability, are able to recruit American women via social media to carry their babies, frequently for individuals or couples living overseas.
The Mark Surrogacy case “exemplifies how lack of regulation, industry opacity, and power imbalances can facilitate exploitation” for both mothers and children, Center for Bioethics & Culture Network (CBC) Executive Director Kallie Fell told the DCNF.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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