Fr. Mark Hodges
MOSCOW, Russia, November 28, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Third-party child production thrives in a country that prides itself on international moral leadership.
In the years since the fall of communism, Russia has emerged as a country unafraid of religious affiliation and unthreatened by the moral influence of Orthodox Christianity. Along with passing laws defending marriage, the family, and the sanctity of life, Russia has fearlessly held strong against global criticism and ridicule for its stand against homosexual propaganda to children and against pornography — even censoring websites devoted to hardcore smut.
But one moral area the country has yet to confront is surrogate motherhood. The financial incentive alone brings poor women in droves, economically coerced into a willingness to rent their bodies to strangers.
NewsDeeply reported that 2,000 children were born under contract in 2016 alone. That figure is backed up by the pro-surrogate group European Center for Surrogacy. Meanwhile, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported one quarter of that figure — 500 children — are born to surrogate “mothers” annually.
Russia is undeniably one of the world’s most favorable nations for the surrogacy industry. Not only is motherhood-by-substitute legal, but
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