Surrogacy In Thailand

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  Gay Western Couple Win Thai Surrogacy Battle For Baby Carmen

  A gay couple from the United States won an appeal today for parental rights over a baby born through a Thai surrogate mother in a high-profile case that came to light before Thailand banned commercial surrogacy last year.

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  Thailand Bans Surrogacy for Foreigners in Bid to End 'Rent-a-Womb' Tourism

  Thailand's interim parliament has passed a law that bans foreigners from seeking surrogacy services to end a "rent-a-womb" industry that made the Southeast Asian country a top destination for fertility tourism.

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  Australia Gives Citizenship to Down Syndrome Baby Left in Thailand

  A baby at the centre of a Thai surrogacy scandal has been granted Australian citizenship, authorities said today, after his birth mother said he was abandoned by a Perth couple who went home with his healthy twin sister.

• Thailand Parliament Votes to Ban Commercial Surrogacy

  A draft bill - which would see anyone profiting off surrogacy given a maximum ten year prison sentence - passed its first reading in the country's military-stacked parliament on Thursday, legislator Wallop Tungkananurak said.

• Thailand Vows 'Leniency' in Surrogacy Cases

  Thailand's junta has pledged leniency in the cases of babies born to surrogate mothers, as it looks to toughen rules in the lucrative but largely unregulated industry following a series of scandals.

• Thailand Stops US and Australian Couples Leaving With Surrogate Babies: Advocate

  US and Australian couples attempting to leave Thailand with babies born by surrogate mothers have been stopped at the airport and prevented from leaving the country in recent days, an Australian surrogacy advocate said on Friday.

• Thai Case Casts Spotlight on Business of Surrogacy

  For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realised in places like Thailand and India. Ready to help them are young women who become paid surrogates, their wombs offered up as vessels that can safely carry the babies until they are born.

• Nine Surrogate Babies Found in Bangkok Condominium: Police

  Thai authorities are investigating the discovery of nine surrogate babies in a Bangkok condominium who are believed to share the same Japanese biological father, police said on Thursday.

• Australians in Surrogacy Scandal Offered to Take Down Syndrome Baby: Agent

  The agent who brokered a surrogacy deal for an Australian couple at the centre of a scandal that left a Thai mother caring for a baby with Down syndrome said on Wednesday the couple had offered to take the boy home with them along with his twin sister.

• Thai Authorities to Probe Surrogacy Clinics amid Down Case Controversy

  Authorities in Thailand are to inspect all the clinics in the country offering surrogacy services to see if they are operating within the law after a Thai woman who carried twins for an Australian couple was left caring for a baby with Down Syndrome.

• Fears of Australia Surrogacy Ban Over Abandoned Down Syndrome Baby

  Reports that an Australian couple abandoned a baby with his surrogate mother in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome have raised fears Australia will ban international surrogacy, a support group said on Saturday.