and filed complaints with the thai police and the u.s. embassy. i will fight to tend in the court. reporter: lake says that the surrogate signed paperwork at the hospital and only changed her mind when he went to get a passport for the baby. after a series of scandals the thai military has outlawed surrogates for foreigners. in one case police suspect one 25-year-old japanese man of fathering 25 children through surrogacy. far from their homes and their jobs lake and their husband are forced to raise money online. their main hope is that the surrogacy law does not take effect until july. but it defines parents as a
surrogacy. under the law he needs the approval of the surrogate mother who gave birth to her using an egg donor. i have no legal rights over carmen. and the woman who gives birth has all legal rights and we have been terrified from day one that she, the police social services would try to take carmen from us. lake and his husband believe that the surrogate decided to keep the baby because she found out they were gay. the woman denies that, saying she only cares about carmen s safety. translator: i miss her every day. you see how cruel the world is today and i just don t know what they are going to the with my baby. reporter: she says she never agreed to give the baby to lake