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Campaigners who claim poverty-stricken Mexican women are being exploited want the UK Government to ban the trade after My Surrogacy Journey became the first British agency to establish an overseas office directly to arrange surrogates.
Surrogate mothers in Mexico are paid £12,000 a time – a fraction of the cost in the US, where a deal can cost as much as £250,000.
One of the key reasons behind Mexico’s increasingly popularity is that it allows pre-birth agreements that see surrogates sign away their rights to a child – meaning it is easier to bring a baby back to the UK, where commercial surrogacy deals are illegal.