Four women who were promised compensation for acting as surrogate mothers for foreign couples were stopped from boarding a plane from Manila to Cambodia, along with their female escort. A report to the Bureau of Immigration stated that this interception proved the existence of international commercial surrogacy as a form of modern human trafficking.

Jeanette I. Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 4,2017.

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