According to Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, will shortly outlaw foreigners paying Russian women to carry their children. Early December will see the passage of a measure on the subject, he added. On Sunday, Volodin said on his Telegram channel, “The selling of children is abhorrent.” “45,000 toddlers born to surrogate moms... 

Over 500,000 opponents of same-sex marriage have flooded the streets of Paris and Bordeaux to protest against medically-assisted reproduction for gay couples, rally organizers said. A previous protest for “traditional family values” gathered 100,000. Streets of Paris and Bordeaux have been smothered in pink, blue and white as scores of demonstrators have been waving flags of the “Manif pour...