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When Na, a Thai woman, saw a Facebook advertisement promising work as a surrogate mother in Georgia, it seemed almost too good to be true. The company would pay all the travel costs and the women were offered up to to $17,000 -- a life-changing sum for many women in Thailand.
But when Na (not her real name) got to Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, things quickly started to go wrong. According to interviews she has given to Thai media, Na said her passport was confiscated after she arrived and she ended up in a house with around 30 other Thai women.
While there, Na said that she and the other women were not used as surrogate mothers to carry babies for other women, but were instead forced to have their eggs removed every month. Those eggs, Na said, were then given to other women for IVF procedures.
The accusations have sent shockwaves through the international surrogacy industry in Georgia, which has seen a boom in recent years. After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine disrupted the country’s assisted reproduction sector, many Western...