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Women in China are covering up surrogacy (đẻ thuê) ads in toilets with stickers and lipstick (son môi) as they try to discourage other women from becoming surrogates or take up their services.

In late April, a video of an anonymous (ẩn danh) woman covering up a surrogacy ad with stickers in a women’s bathroom in a hospital in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region went viral online.

These ads look to recruit surrogates as well as customers. They are usually made up of very few words, with a price and a contact number provided. Many also guarantee a son, the favored sex in China.

...“On the one hand, I think (surrogacy) can help those families who cannot conceive (thụ thai) because of physical reasons. On the other hand … the most likely result is that the rich use surrogacy in large numbers and exploit (khai thác, bóc lột) the poor,” said Zhao.

Commercial surrogacy is banned (bị cấm) in China, together with all sales of gametes (giao tử), fertilized eggs (trứng đã thụ tinh), and embryos (bào thai). The prohibition has led to the emergence of black markets and cross-border surrogacy services that target infertile and same-sex couples.

Surrogate mothers in China can receive up to 280,000 yuan ($40,282) for their services, while customers reportedly pay up to 1.1 million yuan for a surrogate baby with a chosen sex.

The question of whether to legalize surrogacy in China is a heated debate. In 2017, state-run media People’s Daily published an article that discussed legalizing surrogacy to ease the country’s falling birth rate and help infertile senior couples. Opponents, however, decry the practice for exploiting vulnerable (dễ bị tổn thương) women.

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