By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offense, following a spate of dramatic surrogacy scandals in the past two weeks. The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their Down syndrome son with his Thai surrogate mother unleashed an international outcry over the "wombs for hire" business that rights groups say preys on poor and vulnerable women in countries such as India and Thailand. "The NCPO has approved a surrogacy draft law," Pattamaporn Rattanadilok na Phuket, a spokeswoman for the military government, officially known as the National Council for Peace and Order, told reporters on Wednesday. "We will punish through criminal law those who practice and are involved in commercial surrogacy," the spokeswoman added.
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