China’s Stateside ‘Rent-A-Womb’
Industry Poses Yet Another National Security Nightmare
Posted By: earlybird, 4/17/2023 12:54:06 PM
American policymakers need to get serious about countering the threat from communist China. While the House China Select Committee has announced it will be investigating Chinese investment in U.S. research and academia, farmland,(snip) it should also examine the Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry in America. Increasingly, Chinese nationals are using American surrogates to bear their children. Thanks to in vitro fertilization, they don’t even need to leave China.The practice arises from differences in Chinese and American laws and may be driven by both the desire to become parents and the desire for U.S. citizenship. But there is a national security risk involved too. Washington has no idea who these children or their parents
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1. Infiltration of Catholic Parishes (snip)In February, former Special Agent Kyle Seraphin revealed that “the FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of ‘white supremacy,’ which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass.”
American policymakers need to get serious about countering the threat from communist China. While the House China Select Committee has announced it will be investigating Chinese investment in U.S. research and academia, farmland,(snip) it should also examine the Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry in America.
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Jack Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested on April 13 (snip)
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