PHNOM PENH: New laws being drafted in Cambodia on commercial surrogacy must not criminalise surrogate mothers, women’s rights campaigners said after 11 women jailed for agreeing to carry a client’s baby were released from prison.
The South-East Asian nation has seen an uptick in commercial surrogacy after the practice was banned in Thailand in 2015, and has since been scrambling to draft a law to stamp out the trade.
“The effect of the law should be to focus on the perpetrators and agents of surrogacy, who are often men, not the women who carry the children,” she said.Surrogates told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they were offered US$10,000 to carry a baby, more than six times the average annual salary in a nation where one-third of the population lives on the poverty line.
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