Chinese actress Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal rocks social media, prompting fresh debate over China’s ban of the practice
- Shuang has been accused by her former partner of abandoning their two children born to US-based surrogate mothers
- The scandal has revived discussions on whether there should be a clear ban on surrogacy in China as legal loopholes create many grey areas
A scandal involving a high-profile celebrity and two surrogate children has rocked Chinese social media, setting off heated debate over whether there should be an outright ban of surrogacy in China.
Zhang said on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, on Monday that he has been stranded in the US for over a year because he and his family “must take care of and protect two young and innocent lives”.
A friend of Zhang’s provided documents to Chinese platform NetEase Entertainment which showed the birth of a boy on December 19, 2019 and a girl on January 4, 2020, both born in the US and alleged to be children of Zheng and Zhang.
The friend also provided a voice recording in which Zheng, Zhang and their parents allegedly discussed what to do with the then-unborn children, as the two had broken up.