On 30 August 2026 our founder was quoted in The Sun newspaper online, after they conducted an investigation in to exploitative practices in the surrogacy industry in Georgia.
Georgia has become an increasingly popular surrogacy ‘destination’ for British-resident commissioning parents following the war in Ukraine. At least 54 parental order applications were received by the courts in England and Wales for babies born to surrogate mothers in Georgia in 2025, with 42 in 2024 and 2023 respectively, 24 in 2022, 8 in 2021 and 17 in 2020.
Georgia has a long and well documented history of child trafficking scandals, and has now sidestepped in to one of the largest surrogacy hubs in Europe. Last year the Daily Mail reported an egg harvesting trafficking ring involving over 100 Thai women taken to Georgia and held against their will for forced egg harvesting by Chinese criminals. The Sun’s article reveals stories of low-income single surrogate mothers subjected to forced c-sections, poor aftercare, an abrupt end of payments with final payments being withheld, and severe illness during pregnancy.
We are very concerned that Georgia continues to grow as a surrogacy destination: women travel to the country from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Russia; undertaking surrogacy to support existing children and from a point of financial need.
We believe all forms of surrogacy are cruel to the child and exploitative of the woman. We want to see a global ban on the practice, and in the meantime the British Government must urgently ban British citizens from travelling abroad to pursue surrogacy, as Italy has done. Surrogacy is international child trafficking, and our Government can no longer turn a blind eye.
