Buying a baby in the Philippines is as easy as putting up a Facebook post. Within a week, the Undercover Asia team received responses from ‘BMOMs’ or birth mothers asking for ‘adoption fees’ as low as US$100. Some middlemen even have lists of babies on sale, with an average price of about US$200 per baby.

00:00 A BMOM selling her unborn baby
00:21 A ‘middleman’ with a list of babies on sale
00:34 Baby ‘adoption’ posts
03:09 Backstreet abortions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, unwanted pregnancies surged. Public health experts attribute the surge in part to the lack of access to contraceptives during the city’s 9.5-month lockdown from March to December 2020.

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