🚨226 children, some as young as 11 years old, are about to be given £500 worth of shopping vouchers by the UK Government in order to undertake a puberty blockers trial, placing them on a pathway to infertility. This is the medical scandal of our time. jamesesses.co.uk/p/state-san…

🇬🇷 The largest trial ever held in Chania begins today. 📍 October 14, 2026 The case of the Mediterranean Fertility Institute (MFI) is not an isolated instance of regulatory non-compliance, but rather an example of an organized criminal network operating within -and profiting from- a legal surrogacy system. The MFI affair is not an isolated case resulting from inadequate regulation; it is a direct product of the Greek regulatory framework. The regulatory infrastructure was in place, yet this did not prevent trafficking from occurring on an industrial scale under the supervision of a regulatory authority whose president is now facing criminal charges. The legal framework does not eliminate exploitation; instead, it provides the infrastructure through which such exploitation is organized and concealed. A succession of regulatory failures -in India, Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kenya, Mexico, Colombia, and now Greece- demonstrates that every regulatory model creates conditions ripe for the very abuses it claims to prevent. Legality lends legitimacy to the transaction, while market pressure to lower surrogate compensation and raise client fees creates structural incentives for human trafficking. The MFI case does not argue for better regulation. It demonstrates that regulation, in itself, cannot resolve the inherent contradiction of surrogacy: using a woman’s body as an instrument for a third party is incompatible with the principle that the human body cannot be commodified and with the prohibition against human trafficking, regardless of the contractual form the arrangement takes.

The trial of the Mediterranean Fertility Institute opens on 14 October in Chania, Crete: 98 women exploited as surrogate mothers, 71 subjected to egg extraction, 26 defendants, 17 charges including participation in a criminal organisation and human trafficking. It was Greece's largest surrogacy provider, licensed and supervised, and the trafficking happened inside that legal framework. Regulation did not prevent it; it built the infrastructure for it. With To Mov and our partners, CIAMS demands one thing: that this trial proceed on 14 October and not be postponed. In Greece, trafficking trials are routinely delayed for years until dispersed migrant witnesses can no longer testify. Every adjournment is a step toward impunity. Read more: abolition-ms.org/en/our-acti… #SurrogacyIsHumanTrafficking abolition-ms.org/en/our-acti…