Europeans Get Around Sperm And Egg Donor Regulations

December 03, 2006

The booming egg donor market in the United States is pulling in British donors who want to make extra money.

The sale of eggs is illegal in this country, but in America, the industry is worth an estimated $4.5bn (£2.4bn). Donors with the right physical, personal and intellectual attributes can attract fees of up to $35,000 for their eggs, with some in the industry claiming that as much as $50,000 has changed hands. Prices are rising, too: in New York, average eggs are fetching $8,000. About 15 years ago, the comparable figure was closer to $1,000. (more…)

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Romania – 31 children disappeared abroad

AUTOR: CARMEN MAFTEI
DATA PUBLICARII: 27/06/2006

Potrivit Oficiului Roman pentru Adoptii, 31 de orfani ieseni luati de familii din strainatate sint disparuti fara urma. „Despre cei 31 de copii insa nu stim nimic“, ne-a spus si Pintilii Penciuc. Unii dintre acesti copii au fost adoptati dupa ce adoptiile internationale au fost interzise prin lege, aprobindu-se doar cu aprobare direct de la Guvern. Vina apartine organizatiilor care au incheiat acte de adoptie fara a respecta conventiile semnate cu statul roman prin care se obligau sa trimita rapoarte despre orfanii ce plecau din Romania. Urmarea: odata ce-au fost dati, copiii dusi au f (more…)

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Unicef – A Study on the Relinquishment of Lambada Baby Girls

Date:  2001-12-14
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Greece’s Black-Market Babies Come Home

This article was published on 22.09.1996 in the Seattle Times.

Stolen Children Demand To Know Their Histories. ATHENS, Greece – Forty-one years ago a frightened Greek child of 5, stolen from her mother, landed in America to begin a new life. (more…)

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All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise have had an abortion. What’s wrong with that?

John Davies’s supporters call him the Indiana Jones of adoption. His critics call him a baby trader. Leonard Doyle reports

Leonard Doyle / Liz Searle
Tonight in dozens of nurseries across Europe and North America, parents will look lovingly down at their adopted children and thank their lucky stars for meeting John Davies. The parents are only too aware that, but for Davies’ determination and his unorthodox adoption methods, their cots and playpens might still be empty while they waited for an “official” adoption that might never happen. (more…)

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Booming Polish Market: Blond, Blue-Eyed Babies

By GABRIELLE GLASER,
Published: Sunday, April 19, 1992

Poland’s opening to Western market forces has brought an unexpected side effect: a booming traffic in the country’s blond, blue-eyed babies.

Since the fall of Communism two years ago, Western embassies in Warsaw have reported a striking rise in the number of residence visas and passports granted to Polish infants and toddlers. (more…)

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War-Babies

Source: Banglapedia

War-babies are referred to here as babies born to Bengali women consequent of their being raped by Pakistani soldiers and other criminals who took advantage of the situation of the war of liberation (March 1971 to December 1971). (more…)

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Bangladesh – war babies (1971)

Source: Banglapedia
Date: 1971-01-01

War-babies are referred to here as babies born to Bengali women consequent of their being raped by Pakistani soldiers and other criminals who took advantage of the situation of the war of liberation (March 1971 to December 1971). While they are referred to as the ‘unwanted children’, the ‘enemy children’, the ‘illegitimate children’, and more contemptuously, the ‘bastards’, their birth mothers are also variously referred to as the ‘violated women’, the ‘dishonored women’, the ‘distressed women’, the ‘rape victims’, the ‘victims of military repression’, the ‘affected women’ and the ‘unfortunate’ women. Many birth-mothers committed suicide in order to avoid social stigma. Many pregnant women went to India and other places either to terminate pregnancies or arrange deliveries. Many babies were born at home. But unfortunately, accurate or fairly reliable statistics are not available for any of these categories of victims. The situation has led us to make guesswork and presumptions about the number and fate of war babies. Some limited evidences are to be found in government and non-government organisations records and records of foreign missions and missionary organisations. (more…)

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