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With Surrogate Mothers, US Citizenship Is for Sale

With Surrogate Mothers, US Citizenship Is for Sale
Olga, a 26-year-old serving as a surrogate and expecting twins for a Chinese couple, holds her belly as she walks in the town of Sophiya Borshchagivka, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 12, 2020. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
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The international surrogacy market is fraught with problems, but one major problem that goes largely unnoticed is that U.S. citizenship is being bought and sold to international couples who hire U.S. surrogate mothers to carry their children to birth.

Jennifer Lahl
Jennifer Lahl
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Jennifer Lahl is the founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture and producer of the documentary films, “Eggsploitation,” “Anonymous Father’s Day,” “Breeders: A Subclass of Women?,” “Maggie’s Story,” and “#BigFertility,” which was an official selection in the Silicon Valley International Film Festival. Her new film, “Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender?” was released June 17, 2021.
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