The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis

The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis

It’s horrific, it’s disturbing, it’s damaging emotionally,” said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody of the baby she carried as a surrogate. What she believed was an act of generosity—helping another couple have a child—instead was part of a scheme entangling child abuse, foreign influence, and the commodification of life itself.  That scheme burst into public view this summer when California authorities raided a sprawling mansi…