Thailand to ban commercial surrogacy in wake of Gammy scandal

Military government approve draft law that will effectively stop foreign couples paying for pregnancies in the country

Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a spate of dramatic surrogacy scandals in the past two weeks.

The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their Down syndrome son with his Thai surrogate mother unleashed an international outcry over the "wombs for hire" business that rights groups say preys on poor and vulnerable women in countries such as India and Thailand.

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