Following a tip off from undercover reporters at CCTV, police and other regulators in Beijing busted what they’re calling the city’s largest surrogate agency on March 25.
As the name—Hong Kong Fuchen Group—suggests, the agency claims to be from Hong Kong. According to a salesman for the agency, it had been operating in Beijing for the past six years, with them growing about 300 embryos for surrogate mothers (without approval from the authorities) annually for the last four years.
The reporters also learned that the agency recruits young women, mainly university students in their early twenties, and pays them between 170,000-230,000 RMB to act as surrogate mothers. As for the couples who enlist the help of the agency, a test-tube baby will cost them a cool 1 million RMB, or 1.2 million if they insisted on having a boy.
See also: Are Wealthy Chinese Using In Vitro Fertilization to Bypass the One Child Policy?
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This much despise for the life of the one to come on this world. It doesn't matter where the baby comes from, it doesn't matter where it goes either. It only matters the amount of money the agency and girls can get. That's the business with life at its worst. Children abandoned two times and adopted once. Abandoned by their father, depositing sperm in a tube then abandoned by the mother who behaves as a surrogate. Two levels to loosing roots, one destination: no identity, except the one who pays the Babies factory to pro(create) them. Sterilized from any human touch of heart, raised in the bottoms of a needy or greedy soul, who bothers no affection for the one is carrying inside her except the joy for the luxury of several thousands of bucks. Humans dehumanizing the natural way of life, playing "like Gods" and creating their anti-natural way to coming to life. The apparent service brought to desperate souls ready to pay millions to get a baby, it's become the lucrative business for charlatans and scientists and a way to copy and fake the very natural way of the procreation. So sad world for the babies to come in this world.
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