PHNOM PENH: New laws being drafted in Cambodia on commercial surrogacy must not criminalise surrogate mothers, women’s rights campaigners said after 11 women jailed for agreeing to carry a client’s baby were released from prison.
The South-East Asian nation has seen an uptick in commercial surrogacy after the practice was banned in Thailand in 2015, and has since been scrambling to draft a law to stamp out the trade.
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