Taiwan bars Thai surrogate mother company from seeking clients

TAIPEI, JAPAN: -- Taiwan has warned a Thai surrogate company against seeking infertile-parent clients in Taiwan because Taipei's law still bans using surrogate mothers to produce babies, a newspaper said Sunday.

Wu Hsiu-ying, an official from the Council of Agriculture, told the Apple Daily that doctors who introduce infertile parents to a foreign surrogate mother company face loss of license and fines of up to 250,000 Taiwan dollars (7,500 US dollars.)

"Taiwan has not passed the surrogate mother bill. So if a doctor arranges a surrogate mother for infertile parents here, he or she could lose their doctor's license," she told the Apple Daily.

An Apple Daily reporter, posing as a client, had contacted the headquarters of a Thai firm, Baby 101, in Bangkok about the service. The reporter said he was told it would charge 50,000 dollars for the service.

The surrogate mothers, who were reportedly Vietnamese, live in a dormitory 20 minutes drive from Bangkok.

Baby 101 has been advertising to potential Taiwan clients for quite some time through a Chinese-language ad on the Internet. The ad lists Baby 101's headquarters' telephone number in the Thai capital Bangkok, and its branch company's telephone number in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh.

An estimated one of every seven Taiwan couples is incapable of bearing children, the Apple Daily reported.

-- The Nation 2009-08-23

And was do the thai-laws say to this kind of frankenstein-capitalism ?

What a shit of newspaper, if they not even mention this!

Or as usual: As someone with lot of money can earn much more, it is ok !

Interesting to know, how much of the 50.000 $ the mother will get !

(or is this just for the service of the company ?)

This is no journalism : they just take the "facts" from "Apple Daily". As it is usual today: No own research/investigation -just googling in internet ....

Apple Daily is the equivalent of the Sun in the UK.

A joke on paper.

Hello, does anyone know if slavery is involved with the Vietnamese ladies in Thailand? Do the foreign surrogate mothers need a work permit to be in Thailand? The Taiwanese parents might have problems bringing the child to live in Taiwan as the child will be a Thai citizen so itcould take a long time to get the paper work finished. It would be a good thing for the BIB to look investigate.

TAIPEI, JAPAN:

-- The Nation 2009-08-23