“The women in House 3 rarely had a chance to speak to the women in House 5, but when they did, the things they heard scared them.”

Thai women were lured to Georgia under false promises of well-paid surrogacy work. Once they arrived, their passports were confiscated, they were put in overcrowded houses, and many were forced to take hormone injections for repeated egg harvesting sold on the black market. The operation, often run by Chinese intermediaries, exploited Georgia’s lax regulations—the dark side of the global fertility industry.