Cancun Surrogacy Agency Comes Under Fire Dean Reynolds - CBS News
go to original August 14, 2014

A medical tourism company called Planet Hospital is under fire for allegedly defrauding clients who were looking for surrogate mothers and brokers abroad. Dean Reynolds reports. (CBS This Morning)

For couples interested in surrogacy births, the medical tourism company Planet Hospital and its founder, Rudy Rupak, offered sunshine, an exotic location and, at the end of the road, a baby.

Fertilization treatments were an addition to his other businesses, which offered discount surgeries from hip replacements to kidney transplants, reports CBS News' Dean Reynolds.

With surrogacy, Planet Hospital would connect couples to a supposedly reputable clinic in Mexico that did the procedure at a fraction of the cost in the U.S.

But Jonathan Dailey, a Washington attorney, would beg to differ. He said he paid Rupak and Planet Hospital $37,000 - and got nothing.

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