“I really don’t want to abandon him, but I have to save two lives”: The drama of 19 babies born by surrogacy who are adrift in Ukraine because their biological parents can’t go get them

Private companies provide surrogacy services, since in Ukraine this procedure is legal and costs less than in other countries, such as the United States. But, after the beginning of the invasion of the European country, these babies were adrift.

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Babies born by surrogacy are adrift

Newborn infants are abandoned due to border closures and the difficulty involved in moving from one territory to another within Ukraine. The parents who contracted the service cannot or do not have access to search for them, much less take them to a safe place.

Any foreigner – who is very common to hire the service for the low cost – who wants to enter Ukrainian territory, must request a special permit from the Ministry of the Interior. In addition, they face the national status of babies, since in most Western European countries those who paid the surrogacy are not recognized as the parents of the child.

Mother hired for surrogacy speaks in the midst of the war

One of the women who provided the surrogacy service, called Anna, referred to the fact that she must find a way to save herself, the baby she is carrying and her nine-year-old son, according to the New YorkTimes.

“I really don’t want to leave it, but I have to save two lives: one that is inside of me and the other of my 9-year-old son who is running around in the apartment,” she said, describing the hardship she is experiencing by choosing to stay in kyiv.

Her husband is one of the volunteer soldiers defending Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion on February 24.

The parents of the child she is carrying in the womb are from China, but they cannot enter Ukraine due to the conflict. “I hope that by the time I have to give birth the war will be over,” she said. (I)