Ukraine surrogacy industry prepares for war
According to the BBC, “Russia says it has no plans to attack Ukraine: and armed forces chief Valery Gerasimov even denounced reports of an impending...
World’s most prolific surrogate accidentally gave away her own child
Carole Horlock is probably Britain’s most prolific surrogate mother. She gestated and gave away 13 babies before hanging up her boots in 2012 at the...
This is probably the world’s biggest surrogacy family
February was the last time BioEdge visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia....
UK shadow minister to have baby through surrogacy
In another step towards the normalisation of surrogacy, a 50-year-old UK shadow minister will be taking maternity leave to welcome a baby gestated by a...
Black Friday discounts on babies from Ukraine
Commodification chronicles. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs...
Gay businessman seeks to become UK’s oldest dad via surrogacy
A 66-year-old homosexual businessman in the UK plans to become the father of a child by a surrogate mother. He defiantly told the The Mail...
‘The Golden Age of status surrogacy is here’
Now that we’re broached the topic of commodification, let’s turn to Town & Country, America’s lifestyle magazine for the seriously wealthy. One of its articles...
What is the future of surrogacy in a post-Covid world?
Anyone following the debate over the legal status of surrogacy should read Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy: Between Legitimation and International Abolition, an open source...
Bollywood tackles surrogacy
A Hindi-language film combines song and dance with social issues. This is more in the ”just for fun” category than bioethics: a Bollywood film about...
New film examines ethical complexity of surrogacy
What if the baby has Down syndrome? There is no spoiler alert for The Surrogate because BioEdge has not seen the film. But it looks...
Russia’s liberal surrogacy laws under threat
‘Russia is not an incubator,’ says deputy speaker of Duma “Russia’s liberal surrogacy rules are under threat,” reports The Economist. The country has become a...
Call for commercial surrogacy to be legalized in Australia
There are no baby farms Down Under An Australian surrogacy lobby has called for commercial surrogacy to be legalised in Australia. It is currently banned...