The Public Health Ministry is currently drafting an amendment, to the law on the protection of children born through the application of assisted reproductive technology, to allow foreign couples access to surrogacy services in Thailand, said Arkhom Praditsuwan, deputy director-general of the Health Service Support Department. DSI Arrests Member of Commercial Surrogacy Gang in Nong […]
Police are investigating a possible new illegal surrogacy movement involving Chinese men marrying Thai women, after a woman complained she was abandoned when her fiance learned the child she was carrying by him was a girl, not the son he wanted. DSI Arrests Member of Commercial Surrogacy Gang in Nong Khai Deputy national police chief […]
BANGKOK, Sept 1 (TNA) – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) launched a crackdown on illegal surrogacy involved in arranging Thai women for surrogacy, prior to sending babies abroad. Japanese businessman wins custody of 13 children born to Thai surrogates DSI assistant spokesperson Mr. Atsadawut Sripita and head of the DSI’s department of foreign affairs […]
Police have arrested a Chinese man and woman, and found at least seven Thai surrogate mothers, in coordinated raids of illegal assisted-reproduction clinics in Bangkok and vicinity. The pair are suspected of involvement in a major cross-border surrogacy racket. In the raid on a house in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao area, police found seven Thai women, […]
The Central Juvenile and Family Court in Bangkok today (Feb 20) granted a Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta, parental rights to 13 children born to Thai surrogate mothers, ending almost four years of the scandal that broke out in 2014. The decision to declare the Japanese man father of the 13 children born via surrogacy was […]
Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj announced on Wednesday a draft law to ban commercial surrogacy in the country. Commercial surrogacy is where a person or couple pay another woman (the surrogate) to carry a pregnancy for them. The new proposed law will allow only infertile couples who’ve been married five or more years to use […]
A new law banning commercial surrogacy takes effect July 30 even as controversy continues to swirl around children born before the law was passed this winter. Public Health and Social Development and Human Security ministry officials announced Thursday’s enforcement of the Protection of Children Born from Assisted Reproductive Technologies Act, which was adopted in February […]
A woman who gave birth to a baby in January and then gave it away under a surrogacy programme has called on the authorities to help her get the infant back. The 34-year-old woman, who cannot be named, now wants the baby back because she suspects he is her biological son. Read more: The Nation […]
