How Cambodia’s surrogate ban left many in limbo

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Yon Sineat and Erin Handley

 

Chhum Samphors stands clutching her long skirt, the cloth bunching around her fresh caesarean scar.

 

The 34-year-old from Takeo’s Putsar village gave birth to twin boys 10 days ago in Phnom Penh, although the plan – organised by the gay parents of the babies she carried and their surrogacy agent – was for her to deliver in Bangkok.

 

Months after the Health Ministry’s sudden ban on the blossoming industry, and as a landmark surrogacy trial plays out before the courts, surrogate babies are continuing to be born in the Kingdom.

 

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