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In a world running out of babies, new life now carries a price. For Thai women working as surrogate mothers for strangers, that price is around $15,000. With exclusive access, Undercover Asia gets inside surrogacy supply chain, linking childless people - many from China - with Thai mothers in Georgia. Far from home, these women enter an unlikely womb-for-rent industry, driven by economic hardship and dominated by Chinese syndicates.

00:00 Asia's baby shortage
02:43 Why Thai women are becoming paid surrogates
06:43 Thailand's ban on commercial surrogacy
08:22 Surrogate children used for spare parts?
09:39 Is surrogacy wrong?
11:23 China's declining birth rate
13:45 80% of cross-border surrogacy driven by China
17:49 Inside a house for surrogate mothers
20:56 How surrogate babies re-enter China
22:23 Difficult journey to become pregnant
24:54 Women trafficked and their eggs stolen
29:21 Georgian opposition to surrogacy
32:22 Inside a clinic for surrogacy
34:13 Surrogates' thoughts in the third trimester
36:26 Authorities crack down on border crossings
38:09 A surrogate's birthing experience
40:27 Declining birth rates across Asia
41:48 Thailand's proposed amendments to surrogacy law
44:05 Agent turns to surrogacy for final time

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20 Comments

@racheltalley3722 9 months ago

Putting the woman in jail for carrying the child is wrong thats blaming the victim in these cases.

@fatimakratohvil6904 2 months ago

To order a child who developed inside womb of women who was sad ,depressed , unhappy during pregnancy ? This child will be marked by stress hormones of biological mother .There will be deep sense of loss and pain inside that child .

@jacquelinephiri431 1 year ago (edited)

It's disheartening to see what these women are putting themselves through to survive. They are treated like incubators.

@justteresiah 11 months ago

It feels exploitative especially considering they take most of the risks and are paid less than half of the money paid by the parents of the baby.

@miaahmar96 11 months ago

For anyone who thought the story about baby gammy was bad enough - a quick google search of the story shows that the biological father who abandoned the baby is a convicted sex offender.

1. Why is a convicted sex offender allowed to produce babies via surrogacy with an egg donor?

2. Why is any parent allowed to abandon their baby in a foreign country?

Shame on Australia for allowing this (and obviously the rest of the stories are awful too, it's just this one stood out)

@mamig3216 11 months ago

Georgia has a really dark history about adoptions as well. This is very sad

@anna-51-u8i 11 months ago (edited)

I’m not against surrogacy as a whole..I would rather see it done legally and right…for the safety of the child…myself I couldn’t do it as I would get to attached to a baby I’ve carried for nine months..☹️ the parents who end up with the children really needs to be looked into and monitored afterwards for a time. They have to make sure the child is safe and not being used for nefarious sick reasons as body parts…that really discussed me…these woman wouldn’t know what happens to babies doing it this way…they just taken there word for it….so many things to think on with this subject…scary

@mimimimini-h2o 1 year ago

At the end of the day, everything comes down to poverty. Poor people with no safety nets become easy pray for exploiters. Same thing with prostitution. Most people do it because they have no other choice. Poverty is a grueling thing. What is the person going to do when there is no food and no money and they have mouths to feed? Sure, it might not be the only way out. But I understand why they might resort to such measures when the pay is (somewhat) lucrative (compared to what they usually make after toilling away and exhausting themselves to death). If governments trully want to put a stop to such acts, they should invest in social security and support acts. Wealth is not being distributed appropriately. I'm not saying we shouldn't have rich people. I'm saying we shouldn't have people in poverty when there is so much wealth going around. I wish all the best to the surrogate mothers in this documentry. Governments can crack down on so many agencies and what not. But these establishments will just hide better. If the vulnerable people have a proper support system in times of need, they will never even second guess taking such drastic measures just to make enough money to support themselves and their family.

@SandyMac312 1 year ago

A case in California broke recently of an elder chinese couple having 20 babies all from surrogate and no one would of known how many more they would try to create because one baby needed medical attention because of abuse from the Nanny that was watching those babies. Insane

@FieryJuniper 2 months ago

Children shouldn't be used as commodities, and women shouldn't be subjected to exploitation. This is disheartening. If they want their people to avoid these things, then they need to give their people other opportunities.

@frenchie.t5737 2 months ago

Surrogacy supporters keep pretending that there's nothing exploitative while the Thai interviewee said, "Everyone who comes here have problems."

@windsau1111 1 month ago

Heart breaking to see those babies are treated like livestock at farms😢😢

@KimiHkimiH 11 months ago

Rejecting one of the town’s that had Down syndrome I am disgusted as an Australian that some POS did this to baby Gammy. Down Syndrome people have a lot to offer & are amazing people.

@phalarisbajandsmithart534 1 month ago

Surrogacy puts babies at risk ending up with predators that otherwise would not be allowed to adopt

@pamm5 2 months ago

This is crazy. In the US, we pay $15,000+ just for birthing in the hospital. Homebirths with no complications with a midwife is $5,000.

@pherisndungu463 8 months ago

Why wasn’t the Kenyan woman given the same level of privacy as the other women by having her face blurred?

@xxoo-lp6vc 1 year ago (edited)

This is an international "Baby Factories" , not for China only.

@JasonL527 1 month ago

In Shenzhen in 2018, I attended a venture pitch for an expansion of a surrogacy clinic in Ukraine in 2018. They were raising funds for a second hospital to handle the insatiable demand...the questions asked by the potential investors shocked me. At first they thought surrogate selection was a brothel, then they wanted to know if what kind of woman matters who carries the baby. "Does the packaging matter?"

Holy crap I could not have known how deep this goes

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro becoming reality...

@christinepoole4628 7 months ago (edited)

Paris Hilton had two of her children by surrogacy. The rate in the US is $75,000 (found this info today listed on a job search site). Where there is wealth disparity, the rich will take advantage of the poor.