Surrogacy: Act to end our women's exploitation

In Kenya, surrogate mothers are paid between Sh200,000 and Sh1 million per pregnancy, while surrogate mothers in America earn about Sh10 million per pregnancy. [iStockphoto]

The story of an abandoned Kenyan woman who was tricked into a Sh35,000 monthly payment as a surrogate mother should goad the government into action to protect vulnerable Kenyan women.

Surrogacy is the instance where a woman enters into an agreement to carry a pregnancy for another woman and hand over the child at birth. But while it is legal and done professionally in other countries, Kenya has unfortunately become a hunting ground for foreign cartels who exploit desperate Kenyan women pushed to the wall by poverty.