Author Jordan Boyd profileIf anyone wants proof that commercial surrogacy needs to be banned, look no further than California, where a Chinese couple took advantage of lax rent-a-womb policies to commission the creation of around two dozen children now scattered across foster homes in the U.S. amid allegations of abuse.

Eyebrows certainly raised in July 2025 when 21 children belonging to a Chinese couple were placed in state custody after a baby arrived at the hospital with a brain bleed. The real shocker came when news broke that most of the kids were under three years old, and many were reportedly created using a deceptive multi-state simultaneous surrogacy scheme called Mark Surrogacy, run by none other than the owners of the home: 65-year-old Guojun Xuan and 38-year-old Silvia Zhang.

There are no laws banning the use of multiple simultaneous surrogacy — a process that involves impregnating multiple surrogates at a time to have babies closer in age than traditional reproduction and gestation allow. …

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