Couples looking for surrogates still going to Ukraine

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  Hello, I'm Anka Desai and in the early hours of Thursday the 7th of May, these are our main stories.

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  A BBC investigation has found that couples from all over the world are still going to Ukraine in search

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  of a surrogate despite the war with Russia.

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  Ukraine has been one of the world's leading hubs for commercial surrogacy,

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  attracting couples from around the world with lower costs and more relaxed laws.

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  Despite Russia's full-scale invasion, the industry has continued to operate.

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  But now a proposed law being debated in Ukraine's parliament could ban surrogacy for foreign parents,

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  threatening to dismantle one of the world's biggest surrogacy markets.

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