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We should stop selling American babies.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the flaws in the Supreme Court\u2019s recent ruling on birthplace citizenship, it highlights that the surrogacy industry is selling American babies and shipping them overseas. Literally. Just last year, The Wall Street Journal published a story headlined \u201cThe Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate.\u201d The leading example was Xu Bo, a video game mogul whose \u201ccompany said he has more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the U.S.\u201d The vast majority of these are boys, whom he prefers.<\/p>\n

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Legally, these children are, as the Supreme Court has affirmed, American citizens by virtue of being born in the USA. So why are we allowing them to be sold by the dozens to a weirdo in China?<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s weird, but he\u2019s also really rich. And he and others of his ilk are, as the Journal reported, enabled by a \u201cthriving mini-industry of American surrogacy agencies, law firms, clinics, delivery agencies and nanny services \u2014 even to pick up the newborns from hospitals.\u201d The Chinese nationals ordering these American babies do not even need to set foot in the US to procure their American-citizen children. The surrogacy industry infrastructure allows Chinese customers to \u201cship their genetic material abroad and get a baby delivered back, at a cost of up to $200,000 per child.\u201d Mail-order American babies for a vial of semen and a lot of cash.<\/p>\n

This goes far beyond the one weirdo. The report cited the CEO of an IVF company that serves the Chinese market, who claimed that there has been a notable increase in clients who are \u201ccommissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of \u2018forging an unstoppable family dynasty.\u2019\u201d He once even turned down a client who \u201cwanted more than 200 children at once.\u201d The reporter added that \u201cother surrogacy professionals described similarly head-spinning numbers.\u201d And not everyone will say no. \u201cThe owner of one agency in California said he had helped fill an order for a Chinese parent seeking 100 children in the past few years, a request spread over several agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The surrogacy industry promotes itself as generous and heartwarming, a way of helping infertile couples have the babies they long for. The reality is that it is more than willing to factory-farm babies for anyone with enough cash. As the Journal\u2019s reporting shows \u2014 though some in the IVF industry will decline the most outrageous orders \u2014 there are no industry standards to keep others with even fewer scruples from fulfilling them. If Chinese billionaires want to buy American babies by the dozen, someone will try to fill the order. And this is all legal.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is not just the Chinese taking advantage of the lax standards surrounding American surrogacy, though sending large numbers of American babies to our geopolitical rivals is especially concerning. The United States is well known for its unregulated IVF and surrogacy industries, which, for the right price, will provide anyone with an American baby \u2014 or a hundred. And the people (mostly on the left) most eager to affirm the Americanness of every baby born on American soil are also the most eager to enable the sale of these American babies via surrogacy \u2014 including for overseas buyers in hostile nations.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, as Emma Waters noted at the time, President Trump\u2019s executive order restricting birthplace citizenship did not plug the surrogacy loophole that gave citizenship to babies born to American citizens \u2014 even if those babies were immediately shipped to China. And now the Supreme Court\u2019s decision ensures that the surrogacy loophole will remain, and that it will include babies born to immigrants (legal or illegal) who work as surrogates.<\/p>\n

But this does not mean that we have to allow an endless supply of American babies to be shipped overseas, especially to hostile, authoritarian nations. Republican states can start by following Florida\u2019s lead; the Sunshine State recently banned \u201csurrogacy contracts in which any party is a citizen or resident of a \u2018foreign country of concern,\u2019 including nations such as China, Russia, and Iran.\u201d Every other GOP-controlled state should do the same.<\/p>\n

Federally, though President Trump\u2019s efforts to curtail birthplace citizenship have been stymied, the sale of American babies to foreigners is a distinct problem that the administration could still address. What the Supreme Court\u2019s decision has done is highlight the absurdity and evil of a surrogacy industry that allows babies to be ordered from overseas, given American citizenship, and then shipped off to be raised by citizens of hostile powers.<\/p>\n

But the government does not have to treat contracts for American babies as if they were ordinary commercial transactions. Rather, the Trump administration should treat this as the human trafficking and national security threat that it is, and shut it down. We put export controls on all sorts of things; we should add American infants to the list. Making America Great Again means not selling American babies.<\/p>\n

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