Tabasco Surrogates

As prospective parents search for surrogate mothers to bear their children, many turn towards individuals in poorer, less regulated countries. However, in cases, legal restrictions have been causing trouble for all parties involved in these situations as they become stricter. In Tabasco State, Mexico, many foreigners have been hiring women struggling financial as their surrogates, but are, as of late, facing more problems as growing restrictions arise against allowing surrogacy and are even denying birth certificates in order to keep children from attaining passports to leave the country. The Tabasco State government defends their actions with claims of human rights safety concerns, with no evidence, but others find that their main issue deals

As stated earlier, carrying these children is a means in which many of these women are able to survive due to shortages of employment in Tabasco. By no longer allowing surrogacy, Tabasco would only be taking away yet another form of income for these women. In addition, surrogacy experts and surrogates both claim that despite government regulations, these practices would continue “underground” (Burnett). This would further put these surrogates in vulnerable positions, carrying foreigners’ children against the law. This could result in more stress on the pregnant women and possibly make it more difficult for them to receive medical attention that they would have access to through actual agencies. Unfortunately, if these women’s initial means of income are no longer viable, then it can be concluded that they are not given much of an option in governmental influence, especially living in a state of a developing country with high unemployment rates. If the Tabasco government chooses to diminish these women’s incomes again, it must provide them with another way of surviving their day-to-day lives without living in

Tabasco authorities claim that the parents may intend to use the children for organs, child pornography, and domestic slavery without providing evidence for these claims (Burnett). They have even gone so far as to accuse surrogates of trafficking children, invoking fear among many of these women (Burnett). A large part of their stricter regulations is to withhold birth certificates for these children. Without these documents, the parents would be unable to attain passports for their children to leave the country (Burnett). Many have attained these birth certificates by repeatedly suing the Tabasco civil registry for these documents and successfully attaining them