From the Boston company, Circle Surrogacy, which matches American women up with international clients.

FROM Reuters:

Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in $120,000 “designer” American babies for China’s elite.

Surrogacy agencies in China and the United States are catering to wealthy Chinese who want a baby outside the country’s restrictive family planning policies, who are unable to conceive themselves, or who are seeking U.S. citizenship for their children.

Emigration as a family is another draw – U.S. citizens may apply for Green Cards for their parents when they turn 21.

While there is no data on the total number of Chinese who have sought or used U.S. surrogates, agencies in both countries say demand has risen rapidly in the last two years.

U.S. fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies are creating Chinese-language websites and hiring Mandarin speakers.

Boston-based Circle Surrogacy has handled half a dozen Chinese surrogacy cases over the last five years, said president John Weltman.

“I would be surprised if you called me back in four months and that number hadn’t doubled,” he said. “That’s the level of interest we’ve seen this year from China and the very serious conversations we’ve had with people who I think will be joining us in the next three or four months.”

Here is the website for Circle Surrogacy, the Boston business mentioned in the article which is in the international maternal prostitution business. “Surrogacy is a circle of love that unites people who otherwise may have never been connected,” we are told. This is the kind of prostitution that is perfectly legal in the United States, but not in most countries of the world.

Here is a photo from the company’s website:

I assume the couple on the left are selling gestational services to the two men on the right. Here we have a beautiful circle of cash, I mean, circle of love that condemns some future child to a circle of hellish suffering when he realizes he is the product of a commercial transaction and the woman to the soul-crushing experience of renting her womb when she should be having children with her own husband. It’s a form of betrayal to her own children as well.

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Roland D., who sent the article, writes:

“If you add in plane tickets and other expenses, for only $300,000, you get two children and the entire family can emigrate to the U.S.”

These children are referred to as ‘anchor babies,’ and illegal immigrants to the U.S. from Mexico and other Third World hellholes use this technique to gain residency status for entire extended families, too.

Jane S. writes:

Laura writes:

“Here we have a . . . circle of love that condemns some future child to a circle of hellish suffering when he realizes he is the product of a commercial transaction. . .”

It also condemns the child to a lifetime of hell not knowing the identity of one of his parents.

People unthinkingly condemn children to this kind of hell all the time.

Terry writes:

Okay, I’m thoroughly confused: What happens to these”natural-born” U.S. citizen babies once, well, born? At 21 they’re eligible to apply for green cards for their natural parents? From where, China or the U.S.?; from whence is the application made? Are these offspring “temporarily repatriated” to their parents’ homeland until they’re 21; are they, in a manner of speaking, “held in limbo” till 21 here in the U.S.; are their natural (alien) parents given (temporary) amnesty and resident-alien status as their children grow to adulthood? What? Talk about turning the fourteenth amendment on its head!

Karl D. writes:

I posted a comment about this story on another website. I am surprised this hasn’t been challenged in an American court of law from the anchor baby angle alone! As far as I know, surrogate mothers are merely walking, talking incubation tanks with no genetic link whatsoever to the child in their womb. The argument could be made that this makes the child nothing more than biological commerce with no rights to American citizenship. If a Japanese company opened a Koi fish hatchery in upstate New York, would the fish become citizens? Would the pond and all the property become automatic State property merely because the hatchery was on American soil? I think a challenge or argument of this type could blow the lid off of this whole disgusting industry and show it for what it is. Something out of a dystopian science fiction novel! I think re-naming this industry would also be a great start. “International Human Biological Commerce” comes to mind, or “Human Bio Farming.” It boggles the mind that people are not screaming about this.

Laura writes:

Surrogate mothers are not of course just “walking, talking incubation tanks.” Regardless of the genetic links, pregnancy involves a maternal relationship. But, I agree with your basic point. Surrogacy should not be legal for a host of reasons and this is one more.

Sunshine Mary writes:

You wrote:

“Here we have a beautiful circle of cash, I mean, circle of love that condemns some future child to a circle of hellish suffering when he realizes he is the product of a commercial transaction and the woman to the soul-crushing experience of renting her womb when she should be having children with her own husband. It’s a form of betrayal to her own children as well.”

The soul-crushing aspect of surrogacy is real.  About nine years ago, I met a woman through a mutual acquaintance at a play date for our children.  She had a young son and daughter and was heavily pregnant.  I struck up a conversation with her and when I asked when her baby was due, she told me that it wasn’t her baby.  I’m sure the shock was visible on my face, so she explained that she was acting as a gestational surrogate for a married couple in Chicago.  Both the husband and wife were attorneys and by the time they got around to wanting children, the wife was no longer fertile.

All the women who listened to this conversation were very affirming of her, but I asked her if she was worried about having a hard time giving the child up to the couple after his birth, and she told me that she was very worried about it, so she had begun taking anti-depressants in advance of the delivery after securing the married couple’s permission to do so.  She told me that the week of the birth, the married couple would be putting her and her husband and children up in a posh hotel in Chicago and paying for all their expenses, in addition to the fee they paid her for carrying the child.  She told me that as soon as she had recovered from birthing their first child, she would attempt to carry a second child for them.

At the time I considered myself slightly left of center (I’ve since moved quite far to the right), but even then, something seemed very, very wrong to me about a married woman with two children of her own carrying another couple’s child, all while taking anti-depressants.  I can’t image what she ever ended up telling her own children about their missing sibling(s).

 Laura writes:

Sickening.

Gestation involves the most intimate experience one can possibly have with another human being. The idea that because the baby is not genetically related to the mother, she should be able to give him up easily is false. Pregnancy is not like carrying a piece of luggage. This whole practice is profoundly dehumanizing and will reverberate throughout the lives of the people involved for many years to come. It’s no wonder this woman was taking anti-depressants. She and her husband have destroyed part of themselves by putting her body up for sale. Her husband is a pimp. This will make their marriage extremely difficult to maintain.

Karl D. writes:

You said: “Surrogate mothers are not of course just “walking, talking incubation tanks.” Regardless of the genetic links, pregnancy involves a maternal relationship.”

I agree. For any woman with a soul, or at least the smallest semblance of natural maternal instincts. But in the eyes of the “buyers” they are merely incubation machines. I would even venture to say that many of the women who get themselves involved in this “industry” don’t see themselves as anything more than womb landlords. A personality disorder if there ever was one! As mentioned before, if they do have any reservations, they kill them off with antidepressants.

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