Crime Ukraine’s surrogacy industry

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Ukraine was a world leader in the surrogacy industry. It is one of the only countries in the world that allows foreigners to enter in surrogacy arrangements. Countries such as India, Nepal, and Thailand have banned the commercial surrogacy industry from selling to foreigners, LGBT couples, and single men. In Ukraine, before the war, it was a thriving industry.

Ukraine’s competitive advantage in this industry include liberal laws and lack of enforced regulations. The birth mother has no right to the child as it is legally owned by the prospective parents who pre-ordered it. Ukraine is a popular destination for homosexuals to purchase children, although this is illegal by Ukrainian law. So how is it done? The surrogates mothers are simply flown to Cyprus to give birth, allowing babies to be sold to anyone.
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Jews run the Ukrainian surrogacy industry.
While researching this story I couldn’t help noticing the disproportional amount of times Jews were mentioned as the ones running these businesses. For example in this ABC story warning about the reality of Ukrainian surrogacy, the agency was Lotus Surrogacy, registered in Israel.

In that article a Lotus employee, tasked with finding and supporting surrogate mothers, left after four months because of the way the mothers were treated. “A surrogate mother who was 24 weeks’ pregnant started saying she wasn’t feeling very well… Doctors said treatment would be expensive… the Israeli bosses said they wouldn’t treat her. She had to have an emergency birth because of infection. If we had provided assistance when she said she wasn’t well we could have saved the babies… I can’t recommend Lotus because of their treatment of the surrogates.”

The largest surrogate agency in Ukraine is BioTexCom, owned by German citizen Albert Tochilovsky. BioTexCom handles one quarter of the surrogacy market in the world and 70% of the market in Ukraine. In 3 months they deliver about 200 babies. They have managers who are fluent in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, Hebrew, and Chinese. BioTexCom is plagued with scandals such as abandoning babies who are born with disabilities. In 2011 an Italian couple that brought their baby home found that it had no genetic link to either of them after mandatory test by the Italian government.

BioTexCom has very candid interviews with Albert on its own website. In one he talks about how the government was alternately trying to close him down or shake him down for taxes but he managed to get public institutions to support him, adding “Thank God, a new Government took office and things got better, the pressure decreased”. Albert is something of a visionary, and wanted to expand horizontally into biotechnologies like lab grown organs and artificial wombs.
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Albert Tochilovsky, owner of Ukraine’s largest surrogacy company
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Actual promotion by BioTexCom.
The Polish Connection
Ukraine’s surrogacy industry made news in Poland recently, because a Polish parliamentary politician made a tweet advocating that the surrogacy contracts of Ukrainian women who fled to Poland must be honored. Guess what political ideology she comes from.
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Ukrainian refugees must be allowed to legally honor their surrogate agreements!
Wanda Nowicka is a member of Lewica, leftists mainly concerned about LGBT and abortion.

Trafficking children is illegal in Poland, and judging by the outrage Wanda’s statement made there little chance this will change. Poles and Ukrainians are often very similar and sometimes very different, at least when it comes to this industry the two countries are very different.

What will happen to the babies being born, unable to be picked up by their foreign parents is unclear.
 
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I always found surrogacy to be morally dubious at best, and human trafficking at worst. Feminists get pissy at female characters showing too much skin, yet turn a blind eye to fags using poor women as baby factories... How is that not borderline misogynistic?
 
Lapis Lazuli said:
I always found surrogacy to be morally dubious at best, and human trafficking at worst. Feminists get pissy at female characters showing too much skin, yet turn a blind eye to fags using poor women as baby factories... How is that not borderline misogynistic?
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it's just like men in women's prisons or FGM. the "feminism" that gets play in the corporate press is girlpower cutesy feminism and doesn't actually challenge anything. there are people out there doing real work against real female oppression but you have to know what you're looking for to be able to find them.



 
I know someone who adopted a Ukrainian child that was supposed to be someone’s surrogate child, but because he was born male rather than female he was dumped off at an orphanage. His story isn’t that unusual for a lot of Ukranian orphans either. I’ve also been to Ukraine for an internship program and volunteered at an orphanage; I’m usually pretty desensitized to a lot of things, but my heart shattered at seeing how many orphans know they’re there due to being unwanted.

Almost half of these kids were from surrogacy arrangements that fell through for whatever reason. Because they were disabled or born the wrong sex, or didn’t look enough like one of the parents. Or some other reason.

Honestly, fuck anyone who participates in this industry. There are literally overcrowded orphanages partially because of this industry (and this was long before 2014, mind you).

It sounds harsh, but if you’ve got fertility issues then Mother Nature might be trying to tell you something. Either get it treated or adopt if you really want kids; both cost far less than surrogacy anyway. Adoption can be a very rewarding experience, because you will be giving that child a chance that they’d never otherwise have if left to rot in some orphanage (or foster care system depending on where you adopt from).
 
Surrogacy is an evil industry, and is mainly a way for perverts and pedophiles to get their claws into future victims.
There's a reason two women/two men cannot make a baby.
 
Skitzels said:
I know someone who adopted a Ukrainian child that was supposed to be someone’s surrogate child, but because he was born male rather than female he was dumped off at an orphanage. His story isn’t that unusual for a lot of Ukranian orphans either. I’ve also been to Ukraine for an internship program and volunteered at an orphanage; I’m usually pretty desensitized to a lot of things, but my heart shattered at seeing how many orphans know they’re there due to being unwanted.

Almost half of these kids were from surrogacy arrangements that fell through for whatever reason. Because they were disabled or born the wrong sex, or didn’t look enough like one of the parents. Or some other reason.

Honestly, fuck anyone who participates in this industry. There are literally overcrowded orphanages partially because of this industry (and this was long before 2014, mind you).

It sounds harsh, but if you’ve got fertility issues then Mother Nature might be trying to tell you something. Either get it treated or adopt if you really want kids; both cost far less than surrogacy anyway. Adoption can be a very rewarding experience, because you will be giving that child a chance that they’d never otherwise have if left to rot in some orphanage (or foster care system depending on where you adopt from).
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Shit like this is why I wish the horrifying react was kept for A&N. :cryblood: How is this not a human rights violation? Are there any laws regulating surrogacy at all? Seems you can just up and abandon a kid for any reason as long as you don't kill it.
Michael Janke said:
i miss those days, now they get pissy if young females aren't showing enough skin.
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Haven't you gotten with the times, old man? Obviously whoring yourself out to men on OnlyFans is empowerment and if you disagree, you're a SWERF.
 
Lapis Lazuli said:
I always found surrogacy to be morally dubious at best, and human trafficking at worst. Feminists get pissy at female characters showing too much skin, yet turn a blind eye to fags using poor women as baby factories... How is that not borderline misogynistic?
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Surrogacy is perfectly compatible with feminism because feminism’s core value is an absolution of responsibility. If Ukrainians have to suffer so a pair of lesbians can have a child, so be it.
 
NeoGAF Lurker said:
Surrogacy is perfectly compatible with feminism because feminism’s core value is an absolution of responsibility. If Ukrainians have to suffer so a pair of lesbians can have a child, so be it.
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I think it'd be more common for lesbian couples to undergo IVF or artifical insemination since they have the capacity to get pregnant. Gay men don't have this luxury, so either they adopt or opt for surrogacy.
 
Skitzels said:
I know someone who adopted a Ukrainian child that was supposed to be someone’s surrogate child, but because he was born male rather than female he was dumped off at an orphanage. His story isn’t that unusual for a lot of Ukranian orphans either. I’ve also been to Ukraine for an internship program and volunteered at an orphanage; I’m usually pretty desensitized to a lot of things, but my heart shattered at seeing how many orphans know they’re there due to being unwanted.

Almost half of these kids were from surrogacy arrangements that fell through for whatever reason. Because they were disabled or born the wrong sex, or didn’t look enough like one of the parents. Or some other reason.

Honestly, fuck anyone who participates in this industry. There are literally overcrowded orphanages partially because of this industry (and this was long before 2014, mind you).

It sounds harsh, but if you’ve got fertility issues then Mother Nature might be trying to tell you something. Either get it treated or adopt if you really want kids; both cost far less than surrogacy anyway. Adoption can be a very rewarding experience, because you will be giving that child a chance that they’d never otherwise have if left to rot in some orphanage (or foster care system depending on where you adopt from).
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"Didn't look enough like their parents." Nothing should surprise me about this dirty business anymore, but that one hits hard. Anyone who could do that to a child should be locked up.

derpi said:
Idgaf about feminism or human rights I just want to avoid wrecking my body like some kind of animal. Viviparous birth is for the uncivilized.
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People with this level of irony poisoning should be on a watch list, if not in an institution.
 
Skitzels said:
I know someone who adopted a Ukrainian child that was supposed to be someone’s surrogate child, but because he was born male rather than female he was dumped off at an orphanage. His story isn’t that unusual for a lot of Ukranian orphans either. I’ve also been to Ukraine for an internship program and volunteered at an orphanage; I’m usually pretty desensitized to a lot of things, but my heart shattered at seeing how many orphans know they’re there due to being unwanted.

Almost half of these kids were from surrogacy arrangements that fell through for whatever reason. Because they were disabled or born the wrong sex, or didn’t look enough like one of the parents. Or some other reason.
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It might be why this is happening.
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Larry David's Opera Cape said:
"Didn't look enough like their parents." Nothing should surprise me about this dirty business anymore, but that one hits hard. Anyone who could do that to a child should be locked up.


People with this level of irony poisoning should be on a watch list, if not in an institution.
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I’m being completely serious 🙃 it’s no different than prostitution imo
 
From my understanding, Ukraine has a problem with human exploitation in general, and it's been that way for quite some time.
Sex Trafficking: The Next Generation in Odessa (A) from 2010:
“The real action is in the Emirates, Dubai or Antalya,” says Masha, a stick-thin 19-year-old who teeters a little on her heels. “Don’t be confused,” she says. “Nobody takes us by the hair and drags us onto the ships.” She gestures over at the mouth of the port. “Those are like the gates to freedom for a lot of us,” she says. “Yeah, like the Statue of Liberty,” adds another girl, and the group of them erupts into laughter.

This is not better or happier news, but it adds to our understanding of how some women migrate out of bad situations. The fact that they don’t need to be kidnapped, coerced, lied to and forced doesn’t make their choices any nicer. The point is, given very few options, these women prefer to get into sex work. The figure of the prostitute who’s made it financially and goes – or is sent – back home to show the trappings is a classic one – I have met her myself in more than one country. The story she tells is true – it’s possible to make much more money selling sex – though it is hardly worth it if you can’t figure out how to do it without suffering too much.

This excerpt comes from Time, which means the reporter had better resources and a bit more time to do a decent investigation. I can’t say whether he passed up or missed opportunities to find out about less miserable situations. The thing to understand about all such stories is that the investigator or reporter goes into the field with only one or two contacts (aka gatekeepers) and may never run into people who would tell a completely different story. To talk with all sorts of potential migrants takes a real commitment of time and money, wherever you try to do it.

Prostitution, Ukraine’s Unstoppable Export
By Simon Shuster, Time

But the prostitutes who pass through Odessa these days do not harbor the naive dreams of their predecessors from the ’90s. And so the sex trade through Odessa has hardened in the past few years into something more jaded and much more difficult to stop. “Reporters always come here demanding to see the victims,” says Olga Kostyuk, deputy head of the charity Faith, Hope, Love, which provides assistance to Odessa’s sex workers. “They want to see the men, the pimps, the manipulators behind all of this. But things are not so simple now.”

For one thing, there aren’t many pimps left in this city of one million people, at least not the men who engaged in the most vicious forms of sex trafficking. As recently as 2006, their most common method of recruitment was to send scouts into the nearby towns to lure girls back to the port with false promises of work abroad — as a dancer in Paris or a waitress in Dubai — and then force them into prostitution. But most of these modern-day slaves traders are gone — these days, few of the prostitutes who pass through Odessa have been tricked into joining the trade. “Now the typical situation is that an experienced girl gets off the plane from Turkey covered in gold, diamonds and furs, and goes back to her home village,” says Svetlana Chernolutskaya, a psychologist who has counseled prostitutes in Odessa for years. “She finds the girls who are in a tough spot, and tells them how much money they can make turning tricks in a foreign country.”

The poverty and general hopelessness in many villages of eastern Ukraine, Moldova and Romania now run so deep — especially in the wake of the financial crisis — that the promise of a job as a prostitute abroad is enough to get the vast majority of trafficked women to sign up voluntarily. They follow the Mamachki to foreign resorts or big cities in western Europe. . .

– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
That Time article has since been removed.
 
Formica Sample said:
From my understanding, Ukraine has a problem with human exploitation in general, and it's been that way for quite some time.
Sex Trafficking: The Next Generation in Odessa (A) from 2010:
“The real action is in the Emirates, Dubai or Antalya,” says Masha, a stick-thin 19-year-old who teeters a little on her heels. “Don’t be confused,” she says. “Nobody takes us by the hair and drags us onto the ships.” She gestures over at the mouth of the port. “Those are like the gates to freedom for a lot of us,” she says. “Yeah, like the Statue of Liberty,” adds another girl, and the group of them erupts into laughter.

This is not better or happier news, but it adds to our understanding of how some women migrate out of bad situations. The fact that they don’t need to be kidnapped, coerced, lied to and forced doesn’t make their choices any nicer. The point is, given very few options, these women prefer to get into sex work. The figure of the prostitute who’s made it financially and goes – or is sent – back home to show the trappings is a classic one – I have met her myself in more than one country. The story she tells is true – it’s possible to make much more money selling sex – though it is hardly worth it if you can’t figure out how to do it without suffering too much.

This excerpt comes from Time, which means the reporter had better resources and a bit more time to do a decent investigation. I can’t say whether he passed up or missed opportunities to find out about less miserable situations. The thing to understand about all such stories is that the investigator or reporter goes into the field with only one or two contacts (aka gatekeepers) and may never run into people who would tell a completely different story. To talk with all sorts of potential migrants takes a real commitment of time and money, wherever you try to do it.

Prostitution, Ukraine’s Unstoppable Export
By Simon Shuster, Time

But the prostitutes who pass through Odessa these days do not harbor the naive dreams of their predecessors from the ’90s. And so the sex trade through Odessa has hardened in the past few years into something more jaded and much more difficult to stop. “Reporters always come here demanding to see the victims,” says Olga Kostyuk, deputy head of the charity Faith, Hope, Love, which provides assistance to Odessa’s sex workers. “They want to see the men, the pimps, the manipulators behind all of this. But things are not so simple now.”

For one thing, there aren’t many pimps left in this city of one million people, at least not the men who engaged in the most vicious forms of sex trafficking. As recently as 2006, their most common method of recruitment was to send scouts into the nearby towns to lure girls back to the port with false promises of work abroad — as a dancer in Paris or a waitress in Dubai — and then force them into prostitution. But most of these modern-day slaves traders are gone — these days, few of the prostitutes who pass through Odessa have been tricked into joining the trade. “Now the typical situation is that an experienced girl gets off the plane from Turkey covered in gold, diamonds and furs, and goes back to her home village,” says Svetlana Chernolutskaya, a psychologist who has counseled prostitutes in Odessa for years. “She finds the girls who are in a tough spot, and tells them how much money they can make turning tricks in a foreign country.”

The poverty and general hopelessness in many villages of eastern Ukraine, Moldova and Romania now run so deep — especially in the wake of the financial crisis — that the promise of a job as a prostitute abroad is enough to get the vast majority of trafficked women to sign up voluntarily. They follow the Mamachki to foreign resorts or big cities in western Europe. . .

– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
That Time article has since been removed.
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Wayback Machine has it. Looks like they removed it at the beginning of March- shocking I know.

 
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