US lawmakers are targeting surrogacy laws which have allowed foreign nationals to father ‘hundreds’ of children, and allowing sex offenders to buy children.
Many countries have banned surrogacy, but the US currently allows international applicants to purchase surrogate-birthed babies, often via agencies that target poor women who believe this will help them out of financial difficulty.
In September, news broke that one Chinese billionaire, video game executive Xu Bo, has fathered more than 100 children via surrogacy. One person, quoted on one US news channel, said she believed it was more like 300.
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