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Zana Mihaljevic needs $17,000 to become a mum.

The 51-year-old founder of the 'Be a Mum' Foundation, which promotes support for women trying to have a child, suffers from hypogonadism, which means her ovaries do not produce enough hormones.

Authorities have allowed foreign parents into Ukraine to collect babies who were born to surrogate mothers and stranded in the eastern European country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ukraine's human rights ombudswoman, Lyudmila Denisova, said Wednesday that 31 couples had arrived and been united with their children.

Ukraine's human rights ombudswoman has appealed to authorities to find a solution for scores of infants born to surrogate mothers for foreign parents who are stranded because the country's borders are closed under coronavirus restrictions.

€ 500,000 was the profit of the organized crime group for illegal adoptions and trafficking in eggs in Greece, police officials said in a statement quoted by Kathimerini newspaper. According to authorities, the group that was busted yesterday is the largest in Europe and the best organized.

Police in Thessaloniki on Wednesday announced they had unraveled a racket involved in illegal adoptions and egg trafficking, which they described as one of Europe's largest and most well-organized.
Twelve people have so far been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the gang, which police said made a profit of more than 500,000 euros over three years.

The number of Turkish women illegally seeking surrogate mothers abroad, especially in countries where the practice is common and legal, such as in Greek Cyprus, Georgia and the United States, or women offering to become surrogates for money has been on the rise, daily Habertürk reported on Feb. 5.

The Health Ministry has initiated work to outlaw surrogate motherhood in Turkey and seeks to have the relevant law changed, introducing a jail sentence of between two and five years for those found guilty of the act. 

An Australian nurse and two Cambodian assistants were found guilty of running an illegal commercial surrogacy clinic in Cambodia on Aug. 3 and sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison.

A “special” conspiracy theory is being stirred by Russian media after the publication of an article by Komsomolskaya Pravda which claims that Kate Middleton did not give birth to her child this weekend!

The specific article was based on the “expertise” of some random women who claim that it is impossible for a woman to look as beautiful as Kate did 5 hours after child birth.

One obscure fact out of the devastating quake that struck Nepal over the weekend is the fact that the Himalayan country is used by many same-sex couples in Israel for surrogate pregnancies.