By Louise Cheer For Daily Mail Australia Couples from the US and Australia, who were flying out with surrogate babies, have been barred from travel by immigration officials in Thailand as its local government continues its crackdown on surrogacy laws. It is believed the couples, including Australian homosexuals, were leaving from Bangkok international airport when they were stopped on Thursday afternoon, according to the ABC. One of the couples was with a surrogate mother. Scroll down for video The alleged abandonment of baby Gammy - a child carried by surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua (pictured with the seven-month-old - sparked a surrogacy crackdown in Thailand
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Four couples, from the U.S. and Australia, have been stopped in Bangkok
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Two American couples have stopped by Thai officials in the past 24 hours
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It comes after Western Australia's David and Wendy Farnell created international outcry
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They were accused of abandoning a Thai-born child when they found out he had Down syndrome
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Instead they took his healthy twin sister, Pipah, leaving Gammy behind
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