On March 17, the media reported that "Oral Record of Surrogate Woman: Blindfolded and Sent to an Abandoned Garage in Matsue for Embryo Transfer". According to the report, a 28-year-old woman, Xiao Tang, owed about 200,000 yuan in debt due to investment and other reasons, contacted a "Shanghai Harbor Fertility Agency" through the Internet and tried to repay the debt by surrogacy. On May 10, 2020, she was taken to a parking lot in Songjiang District, then changed to another car, put on an eye mask, and arrived at an abandoned factory building for embryo transfer. During the operation, a transparent plastic tube more than ten centimeters long was inserted into its lower body without anesthesia.
About a month later, when she was taken to a pregnancy test, she found that she was pregnant with twins who were 145 centimeters tall, severely anemic and calcium deficient during pregnancy, and then she was sent to the plant again for "fetal reduction" surgery when she was five months pregnant, and a long plastic tube pierced her uterus without anesthesia to remove membranes, amniotic fluid and soft tissue.
According to the above report, during the period when Xiao Tang was waiting to give birth, 9 surrogate and egg donor women lived in a three-bedroom house with a caretaker aunt, with poor eating and living conditions, their IDENTITY cards were confiscated, and their mobile phones were often checked. On January 27, 2021, she gave birth to the next boy by caesarean section, and on the fourth day after giving birth, the child was taken away, for which she received about 210,000 yuan in compensation, and the agency subsequently blocked her from the WeChat group. But since then, Xiao Tang has developed feelings for the child, found the employer's home through various channels, hoping to see the child, and after the employer refused to call the police, the police have now intervened in the investigation.
On March 17, the surging news reporter learned from the Songjiang District Health Commission that as early as the afternoon of October 29, 2020, the Songjiang District Health Commission Supervision Institute and the Songjiang Economic Development Zone Management Committee jointly with public security, urban management, market supervision and other departments to investigate the abandoned factory building located at No. 918 Songsheng Road, Songjiang District.
After on-site investigation, it was found that there was an operating room, a laboratory, and a surrogate mother's lounge in the factory building of the address, and the relevant personnel escaped, and the preliminary judgment at the scene was suspected of illegally engaging in human assisted reproductive technology activities, and the relevant equipment and instruments were confiscated.
Here, Xiaobian would like to remind everyone:
Surrogacy is illegal!
China's "Measures for the Administration of Human Assisted Reproductive Technology" clearly stipulates that the application of human assisted reproductive technology should be carried out in medical institutions, and medical institutions and medical personnel shall not implement any form of surrogacy technology. The act of surrogacy must involve the application of human assisted reproductive technology, and once it is verified that non-medical institutions carry out human assisted reproductive technology without approval, they are suspected of illegally practicing medicine and should be punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Practicing Physicians and the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions. Where a crime is suspected, the parties shall be pursued for criminal responsibility.
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What are Surrogacy and Human Assisted Reproductive Technologies?
Surrogacy refers to the implantation of fertilized eggs into the womb of the pregnant mother, and the pregnant mother completes the process of "pregnancy and childbirth in October" for others, commonly known as "borrowing the abdomen to give birth".
Human assisted reproductive technology refers to the use of medical techniques and methods to artificially manipulate gametes (sperm and eggs), zygotes (fertilized eggs), and embryos to achieve the purpose of conception, which is divided into artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization - embryo transfer technology and its various derivation techniques.
The act of surrogacy necessarily involves the application of human assisted reproductive technology.
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Dangers of Surrogacy:
Surrogacy is a complex issue involving law, ethics and society.
1. Surrogacy brings ethical violations and confusion. Since surrogacy is produced through a third party other than the spouses providing a uterus, there is a legal and biological risk of disputes over child custody.
2. Surrogacy causes personal injury to the surrogate mother and adversely affects women's health rights and interests. The normal pregnancy process requires regular pregnancy tests and disease screening, but underground illegal surrogacy is for profit and ignores the necessary test steps. The internal environment of hormones and other hormones in the surrogate mother is different from normal pregnancy, so it is necessary to maintain the growth of the fetus through artificial injection of hormones, such as progesterone, progesterone, etc., resulting in a higher risk of miscarriage and premature birth than normal pregnant women. Once a miscarriage occurs, complications may occur, such as heavy bleeding, infection, acute renal failure, life-threatening septic shock in severe cases, and lifelong infertility after recovery.
3. Babies born of surrogacy are prone to the risk of health defects. Uncertainty about the health of a surrogate mother has a direct impact on the future of the child, as well as the future of a family associated with the child. Some familial recessive genetic disorders of surrogate mothers may manifest themselves in the child, which may directly affect the health of future generations.
4. Surrogacy may cause legal disputes. Because China's surrogacy institutions are "underground" institutions, they are not registered with the industry and commerce department, which is illegal operation. Once a dispute arises over surrogacy services, there is no legal basis, and it is difficult for both interested parties to be protected.
<h4>(Original title: Surrogate woman said to do embryo transfer in an abandoned garage, Shanghai Songjiang District Health Commission: investigated).</h4>
<h4>Source: Beiwan New Visual Synthesis Surging News Pudong Release</h4>
<h4>Process Edit: TF021</h4>
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