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Surrogacy

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Buying babies

In the “booming industry” of surrogacy which is projected to be worth more than $200bn by 2035 a baby is a valuable commodity to be commissioned, removed from his or her mother at birth and handed over to strangers, sometimes while still attached by the umbilical cord.

Ireland now to import babies

Ireland now to import babies

IHREC says the exploitation of vulnerable women for surrogacy is 'one of the most concerning, novel and emerging forms of trafficking'. "Yet we have enacted a law that legalises what the UN special rapporteur on human rights has called 'the sale of children'."

Surrogacy - exploiting women and buying babies

Surrogacy - exploiting women and buying babies

"A society that promotes the idea that women can be containers of babies and that we should do it for love and freedom is such a monstrous society that it is not even able to recognise its monstrosity any more."