The sick HUMAN egg trade ‘flooding UK’ as desperate female slaves are pumped with hormones & forced to ‘donate’ for £80

HUMAN eggs harvested from pistillate slaves held captive similar artillery hens - it sounds similar the crippled for a dystopian sci-fi movie.

But experts are informing that organised transgression groups are present making millions of pounds from trafficking fertile women truthful they tin currency successful connected our desperation to marque babies successful the IVF age.

Our probe comes aft 3 women escaped a quality ovum workplace successful Georgia, eastbound Europe, wherever they were kept successful horrifying conditions, fed hormones and treated similar cattle by a Chinese gang.

And campaigners person fixed grounds to the House of Lords stating: “There is present a planetary commercialized successful babies, eggs and embryos, operating astir the satellite and involving thousands of children, and tens of thousands of eggs and embryos, each year.”

Diana Thomas, CEO and Founder of The World Egg and Sperm Bank, says the UK is being “flooded” with eggs taken from susceptible women successful Third World countries.

She adds that British customers are often duped into believing the eggs are ethically sourced erstwhile the world could not beryllium much different.

She explained: “It's each a lie. They're selling to the Western marketplace (and shown) however to amend their illustration to marque them look similar educated achromatic middle-class women truthful that radical successful the Western satellite don't consciousness guilty, getting eggs from mediocre abused women who are not educated.”

Diana was 1 of the archetypal women to conceive utilizing an ovum donor backmost successful the 1980s astatine a clip – she says - erstwhile determination were “no regulations".

Getting astir strict laws

The instrumentality has tightened up since past and determination are strict rules connected however IVF babies are made successful the UK and different Western countries.

Under British law, immoderate fertility session that wants to import oregon export embryos fertilised by donor eggs indispensable get a peculiar licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).

Commercial surrogacy practices are banned successful the UK – meaning it’s illegal to wage idiosyncratic to transportation an IVF babe for you - however, determination is nary instrumentality to halt British radical from undertaking commercialized surrogacy abroad.

The kid tin past beryllium brought backmost to this state wherever they are improbable to spot their surrogate parent oregon ovum donor again.

Previous reports person shown that women from Britain, the US and different Western countries whose ovaries tin nary longer nutrient steadfast eggs are blessed to wage much than £3,000 for donor eggs that could beryllium fertilised into an embryo.

But determination is simply a terrible shortage of ovum donors successful the UK and the hold to person an ovum tin beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic 2 years.  

As a result, immense numbers of aspiring mothers are consenting to spell ‘freelance’ and scope retired to overseas clinics done online adverts and net chatrooms.

They anticipation that erstwhile the ovum is fertilised and implanted backmost into them, they volition conceive the 'miracle' babe they truthful desperately crave.

However, campaigners accidental enslaved donors are often forced to instrumentality injections to marque them much fertile and are ‘hyper-stimulated’ by unregulated clinics, putting their wellness astatine risk.

They are besides obliged to acquisition repeated and achy ‘retrieval’ procedures, successful which a needle is inserted into the vagina truthful the eggs tin beryllium extracted from the ovaries.

If the process is not performed correctly it tin pb to complications, infections and adjacent decease successful utmost cases.

'More invaluable than gold'

Diana warns that ‘broker pimps’ are making millions from the achromatic marketplace arsenic a steadfast quality ovum – ideally extracted from a young, achromatic European pistillate - is much invaluable than gold.  

Speaking connected the Inside Reproductive Health podcast, Diana said women successful Ukraine, wherever commercialized surrogacy continues contempt the warfare with Russia, are being exploited connected an concern scale.

Donors tin beryllium paid arsenic small arsenic £80 for each circular of eggs.

Diana said: “Records are falsified. Women are forced to motion consents.
They're pushed into doing acold much retrievals than you would.

"One pistillate did 24 ovum retrievals to marque an estimated 600 eggs, according to the reports of the whistleblower.

"That donor was paid $100 per donation wherever the different parties including the criminals - but besides including the clinics and ovum banks - made a batch much wealth than that.

“The broker pimps that bring them successful and the doctors that retrieved the eggs are making $7,500 per cohort of six. And I cognize that - I've got emails from radical offering maine those prices.

“So they're making $600,000 close there. And the doctors successful this state and the UK and Canada are making $20,000 disconnected a azygous committee of eggs.”

Illegal procedures

The latest trafficking ungraded emerged past period erstwhile 3 rescued Thai women spoke retired astir the ordeal they suffered connected a quality ovum workplace successful Georgia, which borders Russia.

Speaking astatine a property conference, their faces hidden down immaculate surgical masks and agleam bluish shot caps, the women said they were enslaved aft responding to a Facebook advert offering surrogacy jobs with a imaginable income of 600,000 Thai baht, equivalent to £14,000.

They travelled to Georgia done Dubai and Armenia.

But erstwhile they arrived successful the erstwhile Soviet republic, they were detained, their passports were confiscated and they were informed they would beryllium undergoing monthly ovum retrievals, oregon else.

The amerciable procedures were carried retired without the due aesculapian protocols oregon supervision, exposing them to infections.

Those who refused were ordered to wage a ransom of up to 70,000 Thai baht (£1,700) to unafraid their release, it was claimed.

One victim, identified lone arsenic Na (not her existent name), said galore of the women she met astatine the fertility workplace were successful mediocre wellness and that arsenic galore arsenic 100 ovum donors were being held captive crossed 4 ramshackle houses.

She lone managed to flight erstwhile her household transferred the ransom money, which the Chinese pack insisted was for ‘travel expenses.’

Na alerted the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women successful Thailand connected September 27 past twelvemonth arsenic she sought assistance for the different women inactive trapped successful Georgia.

The Thai constabulary and authorities successful Georgia – wherever surrogacy rules are much lax - are present investigating the quality trafficking ringing and 4 overseas nationals person been questioned arsenic portion of the inquiry.

Real-life Handmaid's Tale

The lawsuit is reminiscent of the fictional crippled of the 2017 TV series, The Handmaid's Tale - based connected Margaret Atwood's novel, successful which fertile women surviving successful a dystopian aboriginal are held successful childbearing captivity.  

However, successful existent life, unethical ovum harvesting rings person besides been exposed each implicit the satellite including successful Nigeria, wherever women are paid arsenic small arsenic £100 per donation.

In March 2024, a tribunal successful Thailand sentenced a Chinese businessman and 3 accomplices to 50 years successful situation aft they were convicted of operating a transnational surrogacy ringing that paid Thai women to service arsenic surrogate mothers.

The ungraded has besides reached Europe. In August 2023, each 8 members of unit astatine the Mediterranean Fertility Institute successful Crete were arrested pursuing accusations of quality trafficking.

The employees were accused of forcing 169 women, mostly from low-income European countries, to beryllium ovum donors and surrogates by imprisoning them successful 'safe houses'.

Altruistic surrogacy is ineligible successful Greece, but the employees were charging intended parents – galore of whom were surviving successful Australia - up to £103,807 a clip whilst arranging amerciable adoptions and mendacious aesculapian certificates.

Suzi Leather of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has called quality ovum harvesting a "profoundly exploitative and unethical trade".

She antecedently told a newspaper: “The marketplace successful babe making is present planetary and these problems person to beryllium tackled internationally.

"This compelling grounds shows the nasty underside of a planetary marketplace successful babe making and should enactment arsenic a wake-up call.”