ukranian women
Human trafficking awareness event
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Embassy in Athens and the Greek branch of the International Organization for Migration (IOM-Greece) are holding an event to raise awareness about human trafficking on Wednesday, March 30, which revolves around the screening of the award-winning Canadian documentary “Sex Slaves” by Ric Bienstock.
Ukrainian women from Odessa

question about ukraine?

my teacher said that some ukranian women let themselves get pregnant then sell it, then she said fetuses are being aborted for there stem cells? is this true? i dont wanna offend somebody! but please enlighten me! is ukraine a poor country to do this stuff?

The first answer has some good information on poverty in Ukraine. The Unicef article is good, and although the Ukrainian News article is outdated (from 8 years ago), it has relatively accurate informaiton on abortion. The one on fetal sales is a Christian apologetics site with relatively biased and bad information.

Now, to answer the questions you asked…

Women in Ukraine do not normally get pregnant simply to sell the baby. Some women will take payment from a couple (usually a Western European or American couple) to bear a child for them. But this happens all over the world. Westerners exploit the fact that Eastern women are poor, as it costs too much in Western countries to have a woman bear a child for them these days (and often it is hard to enforce the “sale” in Western countries, if the woman changes her mind).

The government does pay money to mothers of children in Ukraine, and many women have children to get this payment. However, it is paid over 3 years – the Ukrainian government takes children very seriously.

What does happen is that many women prostitute themselves for money, and do become pregnant accidentally, but what usually happens is the fetus is aborted (which is technically illegal in Ukraine).

Are they aborted specifically for the stem cells? No, and women have to pay for the abortion (and it has to be performed by the 3rd month). But are fetus’ sold by the doctors? Absolutely – just like in the rest of the world.

Fetal sales sounds horrific, but let’s not hand that on the poverty of one country. This practice has been done for years in “advanced” nations. In 1988, doctors in Colorado implanted fetal cells in in a Parkinson’s diseased man. The Swiss have been incorporating fetal cells in cosmetics for many years. In fact, the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for research on a polio vaccine that was created from fetal kidney cells.

I will note that Ukraine recently passed a law allowing umbilical chord “preserving” for medical purposes, but only by the biological mother and/or father of a child – not for “sale”.

Let us be careful not to assign widespread practices to an isolated area, and condemn them for things that we have been doing for years.

Incoming search terms:

• Are Ukarianian women Christian? (1)
• pregnant ukrainian for marriage (1)
• ukrainian girls for marriage (1)
• ukrainian women to marry canadians (1)
• ukranian girls (1)
• ukranian girls do not have baby (1)
• ukranian gov bldgs for sale (1)