Karina is six months pregnant, but the baby she has been in her womb is not hers. The 22-year-old girl who lives in eastern Ukraine is a surrogate mother, pregnant with an embryo from the egg and sperm of a couple living in China. At the age of 17, Karina's home was destroyed when her city, Bajmut, became one of the battlefields in the initial phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in 2022.tags: Ukraine, babies, belly rent» original news (www…
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Before the war, Ukraine was widely considered the second largest commercial surrogacy center in the world, just behind the United States. The post "I'm going to have as many babies as my body can stand": how war pushes women to become surrogate bellies in Ukraine appeared first on THE NATIONAL.