Julie Bindel, one of Britain’s best-known radical feminists, has written a savage critique of commercial surrogacy in Prospect, a progressive magazine. Bindel is a “political lesbian” and has campaigned for many years against prostitution, pornography, and rape, and more recently against transgenderism. Here are a few paragraphs from her article, “Why commercial surrogacy is little better than the sex trade”.

I’m concerned about all children born to surrogates. None of the protections that reputable adoption agencies put in place before parents are approved such as criminal background checks, mandatory participation in adoptive parent preparation classes, assurance that the adoptive families are medically, financially and mentally stable and comprehensive home visits, are required. Although some surrogacy clinics may do these checks, there is no legal requirement for them.

Surrogacy is exploitation whether it is carried out for profit or altruism. The harm to surrogate mothers is well documented, especially now that former surrogates are speaking out about their experiences. The law should reflect this, and outlaw all formal surrogacy arrangements. The surrogates themselves—lured in by the promise of money, and by suggestions that surrogacy is altruistic, and they are “helping a family”—should never be criminalised, but the brokers and other profiteers should.

The buying and selling of women’s bodies for reproduction is supported by many on the left—a notable exception to their usual critique of capitalism. In fact, surrogacy in the US is celebrated and seen as little different to purchasing an airline ticket. The women in the system have no name, no voice, no identity. The state allows the trafficking of their reproductive system, with a high risk of maternal mortality, protecting only her right to be paid. The surrogacy trade is similar to the sex trafficking and mail-order bride industries—in that the female body, in one way or another, is the merchandise for sale.

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Police said the two were traced and nabbed from Jalgaon and brought to Kaushmabi in Ghaziabad, where they admitted to the crime during sustained interrogation.

The Ghaziabad police on Thursday took into custody a 14-year-old girl, the adopted daughter of a 58-year-old man who was found murdered in their flat in Vaishali on September 22, and her 23-year-old friend from Jalgaon in Maharashtra, on charges of planning and executing the murder.

Police said the two were traced and nabbed from Jalgaon and brought to Kaushmabi in Ghaziabad, where they admitted to the crime during sustained interrogation.

The girl was legally adopted by the couple -- the deceased and his wife -- about a week after she was born 14 years ago, police said. She is currently a class 7 student at a private school in Vaishali and lived with her parents till the day of the murder on September 22. That evening, the CCTV cameras caught her leaving home with her schoolbag around 5pm, in the company of a young man.

Later in the evening, when her mother returned home from her office in Delhi, she found her husband dead, with his limbs tied up and mouth taped shut. The police, quoting the autopsy report, said the man was strangled to death with a rope.

In New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone else’s body?

Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto met in law school in 2011, were engaged by 2014, and had their 2016 wedding announced in the New York Times. They moved to a waterfront apartment block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with a bright playroom for families on the ground floor.

“We got married and then we wanted all the trappings: house, children, 401K [retirement saving plan], etc,” Maggipinto, 37, tells me in their building’s shared meeting room, tapping the table in sequence with the progression of each idea.

Briskin, 33, grew up assuming he’d have children. He came out in college. “Once I had come out to myself and others, I don’t think my expectation of what my life would look like changed all that much.” With marriage equality won years ago, they expected to be able to have a conventional married life.

Six months before their wedding, a targeted ad from an organisation called Gay Parents to Be landed in Maggipinto’s Instagram feed, offering free consultations with a fertility doctor who’d give them “the whole rundown” on how they could start a family. “We had the appointment and we were 100% on the same page – let’s move forward with this,” says Maggipinto.

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Many equate being adopted - and then wanting to seek out one's genetic origins. But that narrative may well be problematic, the psychologist believes

When Louise Christoffersen meets new people and tells them that she is adopted, she is often met with the question:

"Then when are you going to find out who your real father and mother are?"

But it is far from all adoptees who have a burning desire to know their biological parentage.

The only person who managed to get a full refund from the Isha Foundation is a Swede with roots in India. Jeya Balu had to fight hard to advertise a holy stone that cost her over SEK 60,000 and it required the help of a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu and an atheist as well as a policeman to succeed. NewsVoice has interviewed Jeya.

It started in the 80s when Jeya Balu, who was born in India, searched for his biological roots. Jeya had moved to Sweden as an adopted child and DN reported with several full-page spreads about her journey back to her former homeland where she was reunited with her father and mother. There were two trips to India and several reports in Dagens Nyheter.

In the fall of 2014, it was time to find the spiritual roots and Jeya traveled alone to the spiritual organization Isha Foundation, which she had been following for some time online. She was fascinated by the spiritual leader's wisdom. He is called Sadhguru and he lives like a movie star in a self-built community near the city of Coimbatore in southern India.

Jeya Balu describes how she became enchanted by Sadhguru and his entourage of followers. She went so far as to order a sacred stone at a price that, with today's exchange rate (March 2015), corresponds to over SEK 60,000. When the shipping cost was added to the price, the final bill ended up being over SEK 90,000.

The "holy stone" of 165 kilos was to be initiated during a mass ceremony in a huge room filled with around 200 westerners, where most of them ordered the large holy 60,000 kroner stone. They had paid in cash or by bank card.

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EXCLUSIVE: Abandoned at six months old in an overflowing orphanage in war-torn Vietnam, Kim Catford was baby number 671.

But, to his South Australian parents who adopted him as a baby in 1974, he simply became part of the family.

Growing up in the small coastal town of Victor Harbor, and later in the Adelaide suburb of Banksia Park, Kim had what appeared to be, in many ways, a quintessentially Australian childhood.

He rode bikes, played footy and had three older sisters.

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Overheid pakt kinderen af van ouders en biedt hen ter adoptie aan, ook naar Nederland

De Chinese overheid heeft ouders gedwongen hun kinderen af te staan. Via adoptie belandden die elders, melden Chinese media.

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In een district in China zijn sinds 2001 ongeveer 80 kinderen door de lokale overheid van hun families weggenomen en in een tehuis gestopt. Van daaruit zijn ze naar het buitenland geadopteerd. Uit het betreffende tehuis zijn ook kinderen naar Nederland geadopteerd. Volgens de China Daily is een van de weggenomen kinderen daadwerkelijk in een Nederlands gezin terechtgekomen.

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Google Translation to English

Around a thousand foreign children under Adoption Services Foundation annually by Dutch parents included in their family. Many of these children have no parents or parents who no longer can sustain. They should live in the streets and have anything but rosy outlook. But there are other adopted children: children in their home or a mother and a father. While most of which are poor, but they can own their children.

Yet these children of their parents taken away - by the government or by child traffickers. Then the children are sold to orphanages for the drop by a couple from the West to be adopted. Network recently reported on this form of child trafficking and illegal practices revealed in children's homes in India and China. In this case about about the negative form - but also the positive forms - adoption.

Rond de duizend buitenlandse kinderen worden volgens Stichting Adoptievoorzieningen jaarlijks door Nederlandse ouders opgenomen in hun gezin. Veel van deze kinderen hebben geen ouders meer of ouders die niet meer voor ze kunnen zorgen. Ze moeten op straat leven en hebben alles behalve rooskleurige vooruitzichten. Maar er zijn ook andere adoptiekinderen: kinderen die in hun thuisland wel een moeder en een vader hebben. Die zijn weliswaar meestal arm, maar kunnen wel zelf voor hun kinderen zorgen.

Toch worden deze kinderen van hun ouders afgepakt - door de overheid of door kinderhandelaren. Vervolgens worden de kinderen doorverkocht aan kindertehuizen om in het vervolg door een stel uit het westen geadopteerd te kunnen worden. Netwerk berichtte de afgelopen tijd over deze vorm van kinderhandel en onthulde illegale praktijken in kindertehuizen in China en India. In dit dossier meer over over deze negatieve vormen – maar ook de positieve vormen – van adoptie.

By Minyvonne Burke

An ordained elder at a California megachurch was arrested along with her parents in connection with the death of her 11-year-old adopted daughter.

Leticia McCormack, 49, was arrested Monday on a charge of murder, three counts of torture and three counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death of Arabella McCormack, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Tuesday.

Leticia McCormack's father, Stanley Tom, 75, was arrested on the same charges. Her mother, Adella Tom, 70, was charged only with torture and willful cruelty to a child.

Authorities began their investigation Aug. 30 after deputies were called to a home in Spring Valley for a report of a child in distress. Arabella was found at the home and rushed to the hospital, where she died.

This week, the Government approved a policy paper and legislative proposals on international surrogacy and the recognition of past surrogacy arrangements.

So, what has the interdepartmental group that created the document proposed in relation to the future of international surrogacy?

In order to regulate surrogacy in Ireland, amendments to the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill will be required at committee stage of the legislation.

The AHR bill was created to regulate procedures such as in-vitro fertilisation and technologies like embryo screening as well as domestic surrogacy.

This week's announcement means that early next year, international surrogacy will be inserted into the AHR bill at committee stage, when amendments to the existing legislation are thrashed out.