Georgia is becoming an international surrogacy hub
Every cloud has a silver lining. War in Ukraine is creating difficulties for its surrogacy industry. But some potential customers are looking to the small...
Mexico is the new Ukraine for the global surrogacy industry
“‘Rent My Womb’: Women Are Desperate to Become Surrogates in Mexico” is the headline in the on-line magazine Vice. The article below paints a frightening...
Will Ukraine permit surrogacy for LGBT couples?
You have to hand it to Ukrainians working in the surrogacy industry. Like their compatriots, invasion, bombardments, privations, and exile have not stopped them from...
War or no war, Ukrainian surrogacy is up and running and open for business
Despite the war with Russia, surrogacy agencies in Ukraine are still accepting clients for their surrogate mothers. An article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail paints...
The wisdom of Albert Tochilovsky, owner of Ukraine’s biggest surrogacy business
Since the Kyiv-based IVF clinic BioTexCom is the probably the largest surrogacy agency in the world, its owner’s thoughts about the future of assisted reproduction...
Russia sanctions Western parents seeking surrogate mothers
In the bewildering world of tit-for-tat economic sanctions, Russia is coming off much better than anyone expected after it invaded Ukraine. President Biden tweeted on...
Another suffering surrogacy hub: Russia
It is well known that the surrogacy industry in Ukraine is another victim of Russia’s invasion. Surrogate mothers are in danger; parents are unable to...
Ukraine is using facial recognition technology to identify dead Russians
Ukraine is using facial recognition technology to identify dead Russian soldiers, a senior government official has declared. It then notifies their relatives across the border...
Bioethics after Ukraine
In a thoughtful essay in The Hastings Center blog, Jonathan Moreno, a leading bioethicist, reflects on how bioethics will change after the war in Ukraine....
War creeps closer to Kyiv’s surrogacy industry
Surrogacy became much more complicated on February 24 in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion, it was evident that Kyiv would become a war zone. But...
Munich clinic spurns Russian and Belarus patients
According to the Geneva Convention, doctors should treat equally all non-comabtant patients, even if they are on the side of the enemy. How easy it...
Russian doctors plead for end to war
Thousands of Russian doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin urging him to put an end to...