When they are taken abroad, no effort is made by the surrogacy agencies or any other agency involved in the process to investigate what happens to the children and whether the commissioning parents have engaged in the surrogacy process with nefarious motives. Shortly after they are born, the babies are often taken abroad, to the homeland of the commissioning parents, where commercial surrogacy is likely to be illegal or considerably more expensive: factors that motivate commissioning parents to seek commercial surrogacy services abroad. Once commercial surrogacy agencies and the other professional facilitators, such as surrogacy and IVF clinics, lawyers, and doctors, have completed their specialist obligations to the commissioning parents and received their remuneration, their involvement in the process comes to an abrupt end. Commercial surrogacy, as currently practised in some countries, usually amounts to the sale of children.” “ Children are not goods or services that the state can guarantee or provide. In her report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, she stated, In 2018, the then UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, warned that children faced becoming commodities as surrogacy arrangements proliferated. These factors fall within 5.3 of the SDG framework. International commercial surrogacy tourism is an intrinsically harmful practice to the babies purchased in respect of the high-risk pregnancies and the increased risk that the neonate will suffer health detriments, the emotional abuse caused when a neonate is taken immediately from his or her birth mother, and the child’s exposure to genealogical bewilderment resulting from biological and cultural uncoupling, all of which are associated with the surrogacy process. This submission concerns itself with the trafficking of children facilitated by international commercial surrogacy tourism. The call for input requests that submissions be related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular to the targets 5.3, 8.7 and 16.2. Mama Fatima Singhateh, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Submission by the Center for Bioethics and Culture in response to the call for input on addressing the vulnerabilities of children to sale and sexual exploitation in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goalsįor the attention of Special Rapporteur Ms. Gary Powell, European Special Consultant at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Jennifer Lahl, President Center for Bioethics and Culture
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