How do governments balance the desire of gay or infertile couples to become parents with the rights of the women who carry the children? Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Surrogacy is a booming global industry generating billions of dollars every year. But while demand for surrogacy is rising - more and more countries are taking steps to ban it completely. Most recently in Italy where the far-right government has passed a new law that makes surrogacy a “universal crime”, putting it on the same level as child abuse and human trafficking. In this episode Lucy Hockings speaks with Sofia Bettiza, the BBC's gender and identity correspondent. 00:00 Intro 01:08 Types of surrogacy 02:27 Italy introduces new ban 03:29 Response from LGBTQ+ community 06:16 Surrogacy models around the world 07:44 Problems with international surrogacy 10:10 Celebrities and surrogacy 11:01 Commercial surrogacy 12:13 Experience of being a surrogate 12:42 Opponents to surrogacy 15:15 The future of surrogacy 16:51 Outro Watch more episodes of The Global Story here 👉🏽 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4dvK8UQS79GwGLDl94Z3gkt You can listen to more episodes of The Global Story here. Making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, Monday to Friday, from the BBC 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvsd/episodes/downloads ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #Surrogacy #LGBTQ+