Per Editor: Du Yu
Recently, a video of the Guangzhou surrogacy chaos investigated by the internet blogger undercover has attracted attention. The news once rushed to Weibo's hot search.
According to the video, there are currently more than 400 surrogacy institutions in Guangzhou, and small institutions and self-employed households account for 90%. Among them, the top ten surrogacy institutions in Guangzhou that can win 100 orders a year belong to guangzhou.
The video revealed that the girl who provided the egg is called the "egg sister", according to the "egg sister's" education and appearance level, the egg can be opened from 35,000 to more than 100,000, and even the price is 680,000, "even Tsinghua's beautiful female master can be found", of which 50% to 80% of the money will be taken away by the intermediary.
The video also exposed a lot of insider information about the surrogacy circle, the offer of 850,000 can be packaged boys, triplets and half-siblings can be customized.
In the video, an employee who used to work for a surrogacy company in Guangzhou said that after the previous surrogacy company was exposed by the media, they cancelled it and changed the company name to re-start business, and this year's business is better. Because before the epidemic, many people in need would choose to surrogacy abroad, on the grounds that foreign surrogacy is legal and cheap. However, after the epidemic, because many customers' children were born for many months, they could not receive them, so most of these orders flocked to Guangzhou.
According to the employee, there are currently more than 400 surrogacy institutions in Guangzhou, of which small institutions and self-employed households account for 90%, "small institutions are not large, and those who can win 100 orders a year are the top ten in Guangzhou." "Roughly estimated by bloggers, assuming that the top ten in Guangzhou have 200 orders, the remaining 380 institutions have 50 orders, a total of 21,000 orders," that is to say, there are 21,000 children born in Guangzhou every year. ”
An insider told Red Star News that in November this year, a friend around him successfully placed an order through a surrogacy agency, "He was also planning to surrogate abroad, but because of the epidemic and other reasons, he had to be in China." "The insider said that when his friend contacted the surrogacy agency, the other party said when recommending eggs and surrogate mothers that the current order volume is large, and if the order is not placed as soon as possible, it may not be good," the other party also said at the time, they have completed nearly 100 orders this year. ”
On December 30, 2021, a Red Star News reporter contacted the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission about the investigation video posted by the aforementioned blogger, and the relevant staff said that the matter needed to be understood and then responded.
However, according to the boiling point video report, the staff of the Comprehensive Supervision Office of the Guangzhou Health Commission has said that at present, the Cyberspace Administration of China and relevant departments have intervened in the investigation, and for surrogacy institutions, the Health Commission has a strict attitude, but it needs clues to investigate. What the Health Commission can do is to fine or revoke the medical qualification certificates of relevant personnel, and if it is to be governed according to law, it will be counted as illegal medical practice, but this does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Health Commission.
Knowing that it is illegal and under the pressure of huge public opinion, why has surrogacy been repeatedly prohibited?
Cao Xiaojing, director of the legal affairs department of family wealth inheritance at Yingke Law Firm, said that the surrogacy industry is on the edge of the law compared with other industries, and the industry faces strong needs from customers, "According to the current legal provisions, only regular doctors and medical institutions can be managed." For the relevant intermediaries, there is no law enforcement basis, only normative effect. Lawyer Cao Xiaojing believes that the low cost of breaking the law is one of the reasons why the phenomenon of surrogacy has been repeatedly prohibited. In addition, she said that at present, some surrogacy agencies will also separate the location of the transaction negotiation, the residence of the surrogate mother, and the operating room, etc., deliberately avoiding the "minefield" of the examination to avoid responsibility.
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