الثلاثاء، 25 يوليو 2023

‘The bombs won’t stop us’: business brisk at Ukraine’s surrogacy clinics

Russia’s invasion has not deterred hundreds of foreign would-be parents from travelling to war-torn Kyiv and other centres

In March last year, just weeks after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Remo and Amalia* received an unexpected phone call from Kyiv. One of the largest surrogacy clinics in Europe was responding to the Italian couple by inviting them to the war-ravaged country for medical checks to begin the procedure to have a baby.

At the time, Moscow’s troops were withdrawing from the territories north of the capital oblast that they had occupied for more than a month. A few days later, the mass graves of Bucha would reveal the true horror of the invasion as Russian missiles continued to fall by the dozens into Ukraine’s oblasts. Yet, the continuing conflict was not going to stop the couple.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/Xzmb6G0

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