Baby 101 was the name of a company run by a Taiwanese citizen, identified by police as thename Siang Lung Lor. Particularly discreet in real life, the company conducts most of its activities through its website. This site is for couples without children - in Thailand and elsewhere - to whom he offered the services of women, young and pretty to wear "their" baby in exchange for a large sum of money.
Baby 101 billed delivery of 1.5 million baht [just over 35,000 euros], according to police investigation. Surrogates of Vietnamese origin received 165,000 baht [about 3800 euro] to carry the fetus until birth. The company had of course other costs, but still managed to make a handsome profit on this trade more than doubtful.
Last year, having got wind of this case, the government has decidedto block the website of Baby 101. Meanwhile, the company had nonetheless found other ways to recruit other young women. The operation of the company presentation on the site is entirely based on exploitation. The site describes its sperm donors like beautiful white men while "eggs come from selected Asian women," reads a page on the site displaying dozens of photos of young women, portrayed as scantily clad models posing and suggestive.
In summary, Baby 101 has used a particularly sensitive issue for the use of the most vile. As if the sexy models, offices and underground juicy profits were not enough, it also weighs on the company a strong suspicion of human trafficking. According to testimony made public by the police once they arrive in Thailand, young Vietnamese women could not refuse anything.
These had generally been recruited for "good paying jobs" in Thailand, not to play surrogate mothers. Baby officials confiscated 101 passports. The 14 women released in late February had to request help from the Vietnamese embassy. This case combines two problems at once. Medical and hospital regulations prohibit the marketing of services surrogates in Thailand.
During his two years of existence, Baby 101 has yet allowed an indefinite number of births and some hospital and doctors were always in cahoots with the company [the government announced that doctors and clinics would be prosecuted]. Thailand can not become a "baby farm" in the words encountered on Twitter, which is more by women victims of human trafficking.
Totally illegal and deeply unethical, these activities must cease immediately and be brought to justice. The issue of surrogacy raises many moral questions. This topic has been little discussion in Thailand, where such practices were considered uncommon. Whatever one thinks of this problem in general, the case of Baby 101 - which was a purely commercial service - is well beyond the legal limits.
The government must seek the extradition of officials of this company [one of them was arrested in Taiwan]. Prosecution should be brought against leaders Taiwanese, Thais who helped and all the doctors or hospital officials and clinics who participated in these activities. By sending a strong signal today, authorities discourage the recurrence of such practices. 
Baby 101 billed delivery of 1.5 million baht [just over 35,000 euros], according to police investigation. Surrogates of Vietnamese origin received 165,000 baht [about 3800 euro] to carry the fetus until birth. The company had of course other costs, but still managed to make a handsome profit on this trade more than doubtful.
Last year, having got wind of this case, the government has decidedto block the website of Baby 101. Meanwhile, the company had nonetheless found other ways to recruit other young women. The operation of the company presentation on the site is entirely based on exploitation. The site describes its sperm donors like beautiful white men while "eggs come from selected Asian women," reads a page on the site displaying dozens of photos of young women, portrayed as scantily clad models posing and suggestive.
In summary, Baby 101 has used a particularly sensitive issue for the use of the most vile. As if the sexy models, offices and underground juicy profits were not enough, it also weighs on the company a strong suspicion of human trafficking. According to testimony made public by the police once they arrive in Thailand, young Vietnamese women could not refuse anything.
These had generally been recruited for "good paying jobs" in Thailand, not to play surrogate mothers. Baby officials confiscated 101 passports. The 14 women released in late February had to request help from the Vietnamese embassy. This case combines two problems at once. Medical and hospital regulations prohibit the marketing of services surrogates in Thailand.
During his two years of existence, Baby 101 has yet allowed an indefinite number of births and some hospital and doctors were always in cahoots with the company [the government announced that doctors and clinics would be prosecuted]. Thailand can not become a "baby farm" in the words encountered on Twitter, which is more by women victims of human trafficking.
Totally illegal and deeply unethical, these activities must cease immediately and be brought to justice. The issue of surrogacy raises many moral questions. This topic has been little discussion in Thailand, where such practices were considered uncommon. Whatever one thinks of this problem in general, the case of Baby 101 - which was a purely commercial service - is well beyond the legal limits.
The government must seek the extradition of officials of this company [one of them was arrested in Taiwan]. Prosecution should be brought against leaders Taiwanese, Thais who helped and all the doctors or hospital officials and clinics who participated in these activities. By sending a strong signal today, authorities discourage the recurrence of such practices.
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