🧵I break down the data from a recent Fertility and Sterility article on who is coming to the US to rent wombs. The Rise of International Gestational Surrogacy in the U.S. cbc-network.org/2024/04/the-ri…

A reminder, were it needed, that Paris Hilton bought her two children off their mothers less than a year apart, took a month before changing her son’s nappy, and had to be reminded to be gentle when doing so.

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“A large UK study found that third-degree tears are experienced by 7%, which amounts to tens of thousands of women each year. It’s almost too painful to write this, but third-degree tears are defined as “anal sphincter injury”

About 90-95% are vaginal births (WHO).

#surrogacy

Trafficking in human beings: MEPs adopt more extensive law to protect victims “includes surrogacy” | News | European Parliament europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

I'm reading/writing about a new report that came out in Fertility and Sterility. It's looking at international actors coming to the US to hire surrogate mothers. Two stats that scream to me. Over 40% of internationals coming to the US are men and they are over 40 years of age.…

The European Parliament includes the exploitation of surrogacy as a minimum case of human trafficking.

Press Release: sshzu.mjt.lu/nl3/D-Vbi0_FnZ…

Amazing photo of anti surrogacy protest by our French sisters ✊✊✊

#StopSurrogacy

A room full of men.

All getting together to discuss how to exploit women and buy their babies.

The woman in the bed, cradling the baby, is not the child’s mother.

But she’s in the hospital bed, cosplaying.

She’s a multi millionaire who already had three children before she used another woman as a surrogate mother and took her child Daily Mail Online

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The UK's fight against #modernslavery takes a new turn. For the first time ever, forced surrogacy, a new form of exploitation, was reported to our Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline in 2023, with three potential victims indicated. More details on the latest UK trends here: bit.ly/3w4SXiv

Great to see our good friends StopSurrogacyNowUK quoted in this piece by Charlotte Gill yesterday!

My friend Cath Janes embroidered this heartbreaking piece. There is SO much wrong with the medical industrial system and the way it disempowers and violates pregnant women. I have a lot to say on that subject, but will put much of it into art myself.
This piece is a triumph!

Another single British man has bought a baby in Cyprus.

BBC News (UK) ran two identical “poor man stranded after buying baby” stories this week.

But no mention by BBC of the 3 women trafficked to UK for forced surrogacy last year. Why is that?

James Ingham
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Single primary school teacher goes to Cyprus to buy a baby & is shocked when he can’t just waltz home with the child.

Home Office is doing the right thing ensuring you are who you say you are.

A decent man wouldn’t do this at all. BBC News (UK) Lewis
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Are you a midwife in UK who attended a surrogacy talk Royal College of Midwives 💙 ran? RCM refuses to comment. How do you feel about surrogates being offered gifts in exchange for pregnancies? Are UK surrogates warned of risks? Any related stories? Please PM me. SurrogacyConcern

All these people are gathered in the Midlands today, talking about surrogacy.

Surrogacy is never about the child, or the woman. It’s only ever about the people who want to be parents.

Alan, below, has called surrogacy “extreme babysitting”. We disagree #uksurrogacy

Multi millionaire? Already got three children? Want one more?

Just opt for surrogacy.

“I’m aware it was greedy to have this burning desire to complete our Family, but due to too many complications…we decided to venture down the world of Surrogacy”.

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Yesterday we reported first publicly known cases of trafficking in to UK for surrogacy. 3 women came forward to Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline in 2023.

It should be top of BBC News (UK) & front page news. But no.

This is why we fight. And why we will never give up.

Surrogacy is human trafficking.

With 3 forced #surrogacy arrangements reported to a UK #modernslavery helpline on Sky News and the Independent today we share this from the Guardian in 2013.

Clearly further investigation is needed.

UK #surrogacy isn’t what it seems.