Eggs can be sold, uterus can be rented – surrogacy agencies
Recently, the "melon" of the entertainment industry is really one after another continuous. Among them, the most jaw-dropping big melon is "Zheng Shuang surrogacy and abandonment", and even island netizens are also paying close attention to the development of this matter.
Not only that, but also the "whether surrogacy is legal" and other issues involved behind it, which have also been paid attention to by everyone, and Presumably after a few days of hard work, everyone has made the whole incident clear. (Australia's largest Internet celebrity Douyin account "Micro Sydney", take you to see the interesting things about Australian life!) Essential for studying abroad travel immigrants! Please search for "Micro Sydney" on TikTok, we are waiting for you here! ）
Nichiren Jun has not been idle these days, with curiosity to read a lot of Japanese news about surrogacy, found that this gray area, not only China, the whole world are eyeing it!
1, Japanese surrogacy, chaos: mass childbirth is the greatest good deed in life?
01 A 24-year-old Japanese man who found 21 surrogate mothers
As early as 2014, the Asahi Shimbun reported on an "illegal surrogacy" incident in Thailand, where the police found 9 babies in an apartment, and these 9 babies were all from the same father!
The father's name was Mitsushi Shigeta, the son of Yasumitsu Shigeta, the founder of Japan's "optical communications".
Do you know Yasumitsu Shigeta? The well-known "Lightspeed Talent Magician" was ranked fifth in the 1999 Forbes Global Rich List and second in Asia.
So this Shigeta Hikari is a veritable rich second generation.
Well, he doesn't want to have children because he likes them, but because Shigeta believes that "mass childbirth is the greatest good in life" and that there can be more heirs to manage assets.
So as of 2018, Shigeta, who was just 24 years old, had 21 surrogate children (think of his own 24 years old... ）。 Shigeta wants more than that, he hopes to find more surrogate mothers, planning to have 5 to 10 children a year, preferably 1,000, for the benefit of the world.
Although after investigation, the police confirmed that Shigeta Mitsushi had custody of these children, but because of this incident, Thailand introduced a new surrogacy law in 2015: requiring at least one husband and wife to be Thai and married for more than three years before seeking surrogacy services; surrogacy services cannot be provided to foreigners. In the event of a violation, they face 10 years in prison.
02 "Kaguya" Ayumi Hamasaki's Surrogacy ·
In Japan, the number of second-generation surrogacys of the rich second generation has soared in recent years, and the stars of the entertainment industry are often involved in surrogacy.
For example, the well-known "Changeable Singer" Ayumi Hamasaki, last year she announced that she had a son as early as 2019. Netizens were shocked.
After all, looking at the activities of Hamasaki Bu in 2019, more than 40 concerts were held, and even on December 31 (a month after giving birth), a New Year's Eve concert was held, the focus is that no matter in terms of stature and state, Hamasaki Bu does not look like a person who has a child at all.
The Japanese media began to suspect her "surrogacy", and the discussion on the Internet became more and more intense, but in fact, if you pay attention to observation, the picture updates published by Hamasaki Bu during pregnancy are careful to cover up their "pregnant taste".
▸ In August 2019, I began to wear loose clothes to cover my body
03 Japanese Entertainer: Surrogacy has its own child as the last resort
But in the Japanese entertainment circle, the stars who have been surrogates are not only in the rumors, but also the fact that Xiang Yaji and Takada Nobuhiko have admitted their surrogacy.
They have publicly claimed that they cannot have children and want to go to the United States to become surrogacy. They believe that surrogacy is a last resort to having their own children. In the end, they also got a pair of twins as they wished.
04 Going to Japan for surrogacy in order to stay in Japan
People from other countries choose surrogacy in order to stay in Japan, and go to Japan through underground intermediaries to find surrogacy, which costs 15 million yen per time, and there are Japanese gangsters involved in the whole process.
After the current pregnant mother gives birth to the baby, the Japanese gangster lends out the identity to register the household registration, and when the baby is older, the client obtains the right of abode in Japan by adoption.
Surrogacy is not a bill in Japan, so there is chaos. However, for "surrogacy", the Japanese government also plans to enact the necessary laws within two years.
After all, there are too many people with ghost fetuses who try to realize some of their own conspiracies through "surrogacy".
2, surrogacy shady: eggs can be sold, uterus can be rented, women = commodities?
01 BBC Surrogate
So how did "surrogacy" develop into an industrial chain? In the BBC documentary "The Surrogate", the director recorded a legal surrogacy agency in India from an objective and realistic point of view.
The surrogacy industry is known as the need and balance between supply and demand, but behind his commercialization is the darkness and cruelty of human nature under the surrogacy industry, and the commercialization process of female fertility.
Why would anyone want to be a surrogate? In India, almost all surrogate mothers are for one reason: to be poor.
In order to give their children a better education, to be able to afford to build a house, or for their husbands, they sacrifice their bodies to do surrogacy.
One of the surrogate mothers in the documentary is no exception, she chose to rent out her "womb" precisely because she wanted to "get rich overnight" for her own poor family of seven.
For her husband's salary of $40 a month, she can get $8,000 if she successfully gives birth to a child, and $10,000 for twins, which is indeed a huge amount of money.
Unfortunately, because the delivery process was not smooth, the surrogate mother had to give birth by caesarean section.
After encountering the huge pain of caesarean section, the surrogate mother began to have gout, difficulty eating and other problems, not only that, but also faced the pain and anxiety of separation from the fetus.
Although he is a child in his own belly, he cannot hold this young life.
In the face of all this, the doctor at the surrogacy hospital simply reassured them: "It is just a guest who has lived in your womb for 9 months".
It is conceivable that at the beginning of this transaction, the surrogate mother rented out not only her "womb", but also handed over her own initiative and autonomy, and had no position!
02 NHK "The Rising Surrogacy Industry in China and the United States" ·
On the other hand, NHK's documentary "The Rising Sino-US Surrogacy Industry" also truly and objectively records about the "Sino-US Surrogacy Industry".
Because China explicitly prohibits surrogacy, and India, Thailand and other countries have also banned surrogacy in recent years, China's rich people have shifted their attention to the United States, where surrogacy technology is more mature.
Through a surrogacy agency, a surrogate mother named Alison implanted two embryos at the request of a Chinese client.
But at 25 weeks of pregnancy, Alison suffered premature birth due to the risks of being pregnant with twins.
Doctors diagnosed premature babies with possible sequelae, and Chinese couples are concerned about this, as well as more medical costs, choosing not to undergo treatment.
According to the contract, the treatment plan for the newborn is chosen by the client. This is the Chinese couple who choose to abandon the rescue, and the baby will be disposed of as medical waste.
Alison watched as the two children died in her arms. Her life was in ruins, and her heart was broken by the death of her two little babies, and she held a funeral for the twins at her own expense.
In the end, Alison not only did not successfully receive the payment for the surrogacy, but also faced huge hospital treatment costs.
But all of this, for Chinese parents who only provide fertilized eggs, disposing of two babies is like disposing of garbage.
Not only that, the agency also collects a large number of women's eggs for sale, and the price of eggs is determined by the woman's height, appearance, IQ and so on. Each one is clearly priced for cryopreservation, and the most expensive egg has sold for 4.5 million yen.
3. An industrial chain that sells "life"
Nowadays, there are still countless advertisements about "surrogacy" in online blockbusters, and if there is a demand, there is a market, it is conceivable that how many people who want to have children through such means will be.
And the surrogacy agency behind it generates a lot of benefits about "life".
Harvard professor Michael Sandel, in his book Justice, has two views on opposing surrogacy:
First, the surrogate mother seems to be free to choose, but in fact, due to money or other needs, she has to accept the path of helping others to conceive, so it is the reproductive rights ceded by the bottom of society from the situation of economic oppression;
Second, surrogacy is the use of fertility and infants as commodities, an act that is used rather than respected.
Surrogacy, so that the value of life becomes quantifiable, becomes a cold business, and can even be handled at will. The essence of surrogacy is class exploitation. (Australia's largest Internet celebrity Douyin account "Micro Sydney", take you to see the interesting things about Australian life!) Essential for studying abroad travel immigrants! Please search for "Micro Sydney" on TikTok, we are waiting for you here! ）
If this opening is torn open, so that the eggs can be sold, the uterus can be rented, and the freedom of reproduction is not restricted, then where should the preciousness of life itself be discussed?