Addressing bioethical issues that most profoundly affect our humanity, especially issues that arise in the lives of the most vulnerable among us.
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In this throwback Venus Rising podcast, @bjportraits explains the connection between gender identity medicine and assisted reproductive tech.
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Here's our weekly round up of news in #surrogacy:
🇬🇧UK - an international agency has been ordered to pay a British couple $87,415. Floridian Judge Judge Thomas Ramsberger issued a default judgment against World Center Group Corp as former and current representatives failed to respond to the lawsuit. A second lawsuit alleges another commissioning parent paid $40,000+ for medical procedures in Mexico that never took place.
occrp.org/en/investigation/i…
🇺🇦 Ukraine - A woman is suspected of selling her baby for $20,000, allegedly using a fictitious surrogacy agreement to disguise the transaction. Ukraine’s Ombudsman reports that 22 children have been officially recognised as trafficking victims so far in 2026. Read the report.
zmina.info/news/v-ukrayini-v…
🇪🇺 Europol - an investigation reveals the suspected exploitation of Vietnamese women in surrogacy arrangements during an international operation involving investigators from 20 countries.
This operation identified
✅ 51 female potential victims
✅ 6 potential criminal networks & 5 suspected human traffickers identified
✅ 26 online platforms & 77 social network accounts checked
✅ 166 entities (individuals, usernames, locations, and phone numbers) checked
europol.europa.eu/media-pres…
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Baby Poppy was born through surrogacy and was just over 2 months old when along with among 20 other children, she was removed from a California mansion amid serious child-abuse allegations.
Mother Tronderrica James, says she was lied to, suffered a life-threatening birth and was prevented from saying goodbye to her baby.
This is #surrogacy.
She nearly DIED giving birth to their baby.
After a massive haemorrhage and emergency C-section, she wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to the little girl she’d carried for nine months.
That baby ended up in a mansion with 20 other children, all later removed amid horrific abuse allegations.
The couple? They ran their own surrogacy agencies.
How many more women and children have to suffer?
BAN SURROGACY.
elpais.com/us/2026-10-25/la-…
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Well, this is rather fabulous.
“A blood donor gives blood. A kidney donor gives a kidney. A surrogate mother does not give parenthood. She transfers a child…It is remarkably easy to celebrate a woman’s sacrifice when it is somebody else’s body being sacrificed.”
Bravo @cleancitybird 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
"When a woman is poor and hungry, the humane thing to put in her belly is food, not a baby."
I have published my opening speech from my panel on surrogacy at @acadofideas this weekend.
Read at link below:
There is a difference between healing and enhancement.
Healing serves the person.
Enhancement can make the person serve an ideal.
Healing responds to suffering.
Enhancement may reject the limits of being human.
Medicine should never become a project of manufacturing “better” human beings.
Human dignity comes first.
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Ted Hudacko's minor son believed that he was really a girl.
His mother went along.
Ted fought tooth and nail to block the medicalization of his son.
The judge who celebrated her own's son rejection of his sex, gave him a bone. She gave custody to the child's mother with ONE EXCEPTION. That EXCEPTION was that no gender-related surgeries could occur without Ted's consent or a court order.
USCF's Drs. Stephen Rosenthal, Diane Ehrensaft, and Janet Lee really really really wanted to surgically give the boy puberty blockers. UCSF's attorney Asaf Orr said go for it. The child's counsel. Dan Harkins, who is supposed to advise based upon the best interest of the child green lit the surgery.
The teenage boy was chemically castrasted. The hell with Ted's parental rights. The hell with the court's order. The figured Ted would just go away. But he didn't. He sued. And now the Supreme Court is deciding whether to take his case.
I filed not one, but two briefs to support Ted with help from my friends, @ebclaw @_CryMiaRiver @genspect @JonniSkinner -Full brief links and excerpts from the Brief 2 follow. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
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Last month, along with our co-campaigners, we wrote to the Joint Committee on Health and to the Board of the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority in Ireland.
All three questions were left in answered in their reply (received 13th October).
There is no statutory bar, no checks on coercion abroad and no declarations of interests.
See our joint letter here:
abolition-ms.org/en/news/ire…
Our Executive Director @kal_fell on foxnews.com/video/6406873091…
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The trial of the Mediterranean Fertility Institute opens on 14 October in Chania, Crete: 98 women exploited as surrogate mothers, 71 subjected to egg extraction, 26 defendants, 17 charges including participation in a criminal organisation and human trafficking.
It was Greece's largest surrogacy provider, licensed and supervised, and the trafficking happened inside that legal framework. Regulation did not prevent it; it built the infrastructure for it.
With To Mov and our partners, CIAMS demands one thing: that this trial proceed on 14 October and not be postponed.
In Greece, trafficking trials are routinely delayed for years until dispersed migrant witnesses can no longer testify. Every adjournment is a step toward impunity.
Read more: abolition-ms.org/en/our-acti…
#SurrogacyIsHumanTrafficking
abolition-ms.org/en/our-acti…
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Increasing numbers of men, especially older men, are paying vulnerable women in various countries for babies. I invite all those concerned about this vile industry to forward these letters to me, I will compile and continue to raise this matter in the House.
We believe surrogacy is child trafficking.
If you do too, please send this email to your MP.
Followers abroad may also find the text helpful with your own politicians.
surrogacyconcern.uk/take-act…
Transhumanism often treats the body as an obstacle.
Too weak.
Too slow.
Too dependent.
Too mortal.
Too limited.
But the body is not a design flaw. It is part of the human person.
Technology should help us care for the body—not teach us to despise it.
Executive Director @kal_fell on NBC last night talking about the unregulated surrogacy market. Creating 27 children through surrogacy is entirely legal.
We were grateful to comment on this story -- but notice the framing of the issue: "surrogacy helps countless people have children they may not be able to carry on their own." No one is entitled to create a family, and this story of child abuse and neglect should serve as the perfect example of this.
Surrogacy agencies have been entirely self-regulating, and therefore the claims of checks and balances made by the agency at the end of this clip are unverifiable.
What is transhumanism?
It is the belief that technology can—and should—help us overcome the limits of being human: aging, disability, disease, weakness, dependence, and even death.
But when human limits are treated as defects, human beings become projects to be redesigned.
CBC stands for a different vision: human dignity is not earned through enhancement. It belongs to every human being.
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The Marks #surrogacy agency scandal in Arcadia was first exposed by @CBCnetwork, this interview with Kayla Elliott is well worth a watch.
youtube.com/watch?v=MUAou2sI…
The California surrogacy mill couple has been arrested, finally, for “conspiracy to commit child abuse.” Now how will the nearly 2-dozen children they commissioned (all of whom are now in state custody) get true justice? cbsnews.com/news/arcadia-cal…
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Surrogacy raises serious questions about human dignity, motherhood, children, and commercialization.
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