Zhang said in a Weibo post on Monday that he has been stranded in the U.S. for over a year because he and his family “must take care of and protect two young and innocent lives.”
周一,张恒发微博称,他被困在美国已经一年多了,因为他和他的家人“必须照顾和保护两个年幼无辜的生命”。Later, the locAl press obtained two birth certificates from the states of Colorado and Nevada, respectively, for the couple’s elder son and younger daughter. 随后,当地媒体分别从科罗拉多州和内华达州,获得了这对夫妇的大儿子和小女儿的两张出生证明。strand / strænd / v.使滞留innocent / ˈɪnəsənt / adj. 无辜的birth certificate 出生证明随后曝光的录音更是令人毛骨悚然。原来在代孕之后,一家人竟然还在想着打胎和遗弃。
Throughout Ukraine, advertisements about becoming a surrogate mother are plastered on buses and throughout the metro.在整个乌克兰,关于成为代孕妈妈的广告贴在公共汽车和地铁上。 They ask: “Аre you aged between 18 and 35? Do you have healthy children? Are you physically and psychologically fit? Are you law-abiding?”它们会这样问:“你的年龄在18岁到35岁之间吗?你有健康的孩子吗?你的身体和心理健康吗?你遵纪守法吗?”
surrogate / ˈsʌrəɡɪt / a.替代的
surrogate mother 代孕妈妈
via.@微天下
然而在实际操作中,风险往往比回报高得多。一位名叫Alina的女孩这样讲述自己的代孕经历:“We were all very stressed. Most of the women come from small villages and are in hopeless situations,” she said. “We spent the first week just lying around, crying. We couldn’t eat. This is a typical situation for surrogates.”“我们都感到焦虑不安。大多数妇女来自小村庄,处境都非常令人绝望,”她说。“第一周我们就只是躺在那里哭。我们吃不下任何东西。这是代孕妈妈的典型情况。”“We were treated like cattle and mocked by doctors,” Alina said. 阿莉娜说:“我们被当成牲口一样对待,还被医生嘲笑。
“An anesthesiologist arrived wearing a down jacket,” rather than scrubs, inside the makeshift hospital, and she gave birth.
“一个麻醉师穿着羽绒服来到这里,”没有清洗消毒,她就在临时医院里把孩子生了下来。
Several hours later, she watched the baby die on a table nearby while medical workers were trying to save her own life, she said. She was bleeding internally and vomiting.
纪录片中,一个代孕妈妈说了句扎心的话:“我怀孕,是为了以后让女儿不用再当代孕妈妈”。而如今,在新冠病毒全球大流行的背景下,海外代孕也受到不小的影响。因很多国家限制出境,不少代孕公司被迫“囤积婴儿”,甚至一些本该领走婴儿的买家,因收入缩水,没有足够的资金付清尾款,临时改变主意,造成“婴儿拒收”的现象。Over 100 children born to surrogate mothers are currently stranded in Ukraine because their new parents are not allowed to enter the country due to the pandemic. 目前,乌克兰有100多名代孕母亲所生的孩子滞留在此,因为新冠疫情的大流行,孩子们的新父母不能够入境。