Ryan Knudson

That could be collected in an IVF clinic in, say, Hong Kong or Japan.

Nine months later, that surrogate gives birth, at which point another business steps in.

Those credentialed baby couriers might then deliver the infant to a house.

Inside that house could be other surrogate babies, all being cared for by nannies.

And thanks to the 14th Amendment, that baby would also be a U.S.

citizen.

How much can this whole process cost?

And if people want to do this, there isn't much standing in their way.

Other than perhaps a few sharp-eyed clerks at an L.A.

courthouse.

Up next, the strange case of Shu Boe.

Clerks at that L.A.

family court knew a few things about Shubo, the guy whose name kept appearing on those parentage petitions.

He was applying for parental rights to at least four babies, babies who would soon be born via surrogacy.

The clerks also knew that Shubo already had or was in the process of having eight more kids via surrogate.

That number of children raised a red flag for family court judge Amy Pellman, so the judge called for a hearing.

Shubo, it turns out, is a tech entrepreneur who lives in China.

So he joined the hearing remotely.

And he's saying all this to a female judge?

How did she take that?