Baby factories taint surrogacy in Nigeria - PubMed (original) (raw)
Baby factories taint surrogacy in Nigeria
Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde et al. Reprod Biomed Online. 2016 Jan.
Abstract
The practice of reproductive medicine in Nigeria is facing new challenges with the proliferation of 'baby factories'. Baby factories are buildings, hospitals or orphanages that have been converted into places for young girls and women to give birth to children for sale on the black market, often to infertile couples, or into trafficking rings. This practice illegally provides outcomes (children) similar to surrogacy. While surrogacy has not been well accepted in this environment, the proliferation of baby factories further threatens its acceptance. The involvement of medical and allied health workers in the operation of baby factories raises ethical concerns. The lack of a properly defined legal framework and code of practice for surrogacy makes it difficult to prosecute baby factory owners, especially when they are health workers claiming to be providing services to clients. In this environment, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive techniques urgently require regulation in order to define when ethico-legal lines have been crossed in providing surrogacy or surrogacy-like services.
Keywords: assisted reproductive techniques; baby factory; ethics; infertility; regulation; surrogacy.
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- Baby factories in Nigeria: a new and challenging source of abuse.
Ombelet W, Johnson M. Ombelet W, et al. Reprod Biomed Online. 2016 Jan;32(1):4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.11.010. Reprod Biomed Online. 2016. PMID: 26751941 No abstract available.
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