As Mexican State Limits Surrogacy, Global System Is Further Strained

March 27, 2017

(New York Times) – Mr. Theologos and his son are among a dozen foreign families who have been tangled up in a legal battle over how to apply new surrogacy restrictions in Tabasco, which for years was the only state in Mexico that allowed foreigners to hire surrogates. Dozens of other families whose babies are yet unborn will face the same quandary, officials and lawyers said. The imbroglio highlights the legal complexities of commercial surrogacy and the hazards of outsourcing it to freewheeling frontier markets, experts said.