In November 2024, Kyla Simpson carried triplets as a surrogate for a single man in China named Ted Zhou. He and Simpson had entered into the contract with joy and optimism. But after his sons were born, in November 2024, Zhou never arrived to pick them up. Then Simpson learned he hadnโt applied for a visa. She agreed to take the babies home until he could come retrieve them.
Five months later, Simpson was surprised when two Chinese strangers appeared at her door and demanded she give them the triplets. Theyโd been dispatched by Zhou, who was still waiting for his visa interview. Running out of money for the boysโ care, heโd hired them as a last resort. Now, as his calls went ignored, he feared the surrogate heโd hired had fallen in love with his children and would never let them go.
To Simpson, the handlersโ arrival confirmed her own suspicions. Sheโd started piecing together a theory that Zhou was part of a trafficking ring that commissioned surrogate babies who would be separated and sold. Over the next year, she would call the FBI, accuse Zhou of abandoning the babies, try to terminate his parental rights and file for adoption.
American women gestate thousands of babies every year for overseas parents, almost half of whom live in China, yet no federal or international regulations govern surrogacy. With cultural differences, a language barrier, and a patchwork of conflicting state laws, it can be hard to tell in a dispute who is a victim and who is a perpetrator, who has been scammed and who is the scammer. Now, as the two parties face each other in court, the ruling could threaten the status of thousands of parents and define the future of international surrogacy. (The legal process will likely take many more months.)
Read Emi Nietfeldโs full report: https://t.co/b0gDXR5W4n
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In a week I have:
-picked ~50L of bilberries
-foraged ~60L of chantarelles
-foraged ~10L of porcini
-fished
-build feeding station for wood pigeons with my friends
-tried sailing for the 1st time
-went for shooting range for the 1st time
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She deserves a fancier backdrop than the studio and she knows it, buuuuuut we need to get the premades moving
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