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Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he wanted to have children.
“Right off the bat, I was like: ‘If I’m going to be in a relationship with somebody, I really want to build a family,’” he said. “‘That’s important to me, so please tell me if you want to walk.’”
But Loup didn’t walk – in fact, the couple moved to New York together a few months later and after five years they were married in a ceremony back in Paris.
Surrogacy is banned in France, as well as in Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. In the UK, surrogacy can only happen on altruistic terms; paying a surrogate is illegal, but intended parents are permitted to cover expenses.
The rules in Amaro’s native Brazil were restrictive and complicated, and the United States was prohibitively expensive.
Instead, like an increasing number of Europeans from countries with surrogacy bans, Amaro and his husband chose Mexico, where the practice is widespread and largely unregulated. Only two states have...