FOUNTAIN VALLEY, California — Inside a three-story pastel mansion in this quiet suburb south of Los Angeles, Auntie Wang cradles a 2-week-old baby girl named Echo.
The 58-year-old clucks and coos at the baby in obvious delight. But for all the affection, she is not the baby's mother or even a relative. She is a hired nanny whose job is to care for Echo and other babies like her born through surrogacy — where a woman carries and gives birth to a baby for another couple or individual.
The agency she works for, called Fat Daddy, specializes in these services for clients in China — where providingindustry centered in California that also includes the controversial But for nearly three years, the whole industry has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic and China's travel restrictions, which have been among the tightest in the world. In 2020, Beijing completely shut the country's border to contain COVID-19 andThat has meant Chinese parents cannot fly to the U.S. to meet or vet their surrogate in person. Instead, clients have had to send their reproductive samples — eggs, sperm or both — via special delivery to the U.S.
Sad to see npr working for cia/state dept, instead of being an independent news media. Nor was the most respected, but now it is just another MSM like cnn, Reuters, bbc, guardian, bloomberg, faxnews, MSNBC, ...
Is this what we call 'modern farming?'
California...
China has to take control of the US so why not do it with American Citizens in about 20 or so years if not sooner.
'Birth tourism' for a passport should be illegal.
show them the door