Shocking NYT and WSJ exposés reveal rapidly growing trend leading to billionaire baby factories, trafficking

By: Mary Rooke

Articles from The New York Times (NYT) and Wall Street Journal (WSJ) expose severe ethical failures in the global surrogacy industry, highlighting exploitation, commodification, and the erosion of human dignity.

The New York Times report details a human trafficking ring targeting vulnerable Thai women, luring them to Georgia (a country located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia) under false promises of well-paid surrogacy work. The operation, often run by Chinese intermediaries, exploited Georgia’s lax regulations on surrogacy. Once these women get there, their passports are confiscated, they are put in overcrowded houses, and many are forced to take hormone injections for repeated egg harvesting, which are then sold on the black market for in vitro fertilization (IVF).

New articles in the NYT and WSJ shedding light on two dark sides of the surrogacy coin

On the one hand, a global market for pregnancy slavers has emerged

On the other, wealthy Chinese men are producing motherless children in droves so they can network like modern Habsburgs pic.twitter.com/dgFOeoluJV

— Mason (@webdevMason) December 16, 2025

The Wall Street Journal report profiles wealthy Chinese executives bypassing China’s domestic surrogacy ban by using U.S.-based surrogacy agencies. Xu Bo, a videogame billionaire, has fathered over 100 U.S.-born children via surrogacy, and wants to have dozens more, preferably boys, to inherit his empire. Wang Huiwi, an education CEO, fathered 10 daughters via surrogacy. He plans to marry his daughters to powerful men for alliances. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

These men spend up to $200,000 per child, selecting egg donors for high-quality traits, such as intelligence and beauty. Their children are U.S. citizens due to our birthright citizenship laws and are often raised remotely by nannies in California. Most of the parents never visit the U.S. to see their children. Instead, they are treated as assets in business or power strategies.

Together, these pieces illustrate the logical endpoint of treating pregnancy as an outsourced service, revealing how commodification inevitably leads to exploitation and dehumanization. One highlights the exploitation of poor women as biological factories, the other enabled elite men to mass-produce heirs as strategic tools.

“Attempts to regulate [surrogacy] using liberal arguments (ineluctability, technical and therefore social progress, free will/consent…) transparently invite us to believe that consent is enough to get rid of our fundamental rights. For the moment, these rights are… pic.twitter.com/HRvYInuvuB

— CIAMS Abolition Exploitation Reproductive (@CIAMS_Coalition) December 17, 2025

Pregnancy is not, or more appropriately, should not be a marketable service. It is a profound act tied to the sanctity of marriage. Surrogacy denounces the dignity of motherhood and the child’s right to be conceived in love and raised by their mother and father. It turns children into objects of trafficking and the woman into a uterus for rent. (ROOKE: Insane Surrogacy Story Leaves Me Scratching My Head)

Children have a self-evident right to their biological mother and father, to be born free rather than bought. Surrogacy deliberately creates motherless (or parentless) children from the start, often for adult desires. Adult testimonies of the WSJ children who were raised by nannies describe lifelong insecurities and identity struggles from the abandonment during childhood. The NYT’s trafficking story targeting poor Thai women highlights the dark reality of a market where rich adults rent economically desperate women’s bodies.

Mitsutoki Shigeta, a wealthy Japanese man bought at least 13 children.

Xu Bo claims to have 100 children .

Kristina and Gallip Ozturk want to have 100+ and they are well on their way with 21 already born via #surrogacy and more are planned since his release from prison. https://t.co/kdCM3LUNdj

— StopSurrogacyNowUK (@WombsNotForRent) December 15, 2025

When pregnancy becomes detachable from motherhood through contracts, abuse follows. Demand drives underground horrors and elite excesses. Only an international ban can prevent this. We have to prioritize natural family creation over a perceived adult’s right to children. Surrogacy begins with claims that it is compassionate for infertile couples, but ends in trafficking rings and billionaire breeding programs. A truly pro-life, pro-family stance demands its rejection. Regulation does nothing to protect women and children caught in the middle.

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