Is Mother’s Day more fun when there are three of them?
A New Zealand court has approved an adoption of a boy named Kaspar who has three mothers. The first is a commissioning parent, a woman...
Ukraine could ban international surrogacy
A committee of the Ukrainian parliament has proposed a ban on surrogacy for foreigners for the duration of the war with Russia and for three...
Intended parents should get legal status from birth, says British surrogacy review
In a joint report, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have rejected commercial surrogacy but backed legal parenthood from...
Idaho: the capital of American surrogacy
The American state of Idaho is studying a bill to regulate commercial surrogacy. The local media describe this as “a thriving Idaho industry”. Apparently Idaho...
Experts from 75 countries call for the abolition of surrogacy
A hundred experts from 75 countries have signed a declaration demanding the abolition of surrogacy because it offends human dignity and commodifies women and children....
‘Bumble for surrogates’: American doctor launches surrogacy app
The internet is changing how healthcare is delivered in ways that subvert laws, regulations, and medical conventions. Start-up companies are offering medication abortions, along with...
Bioethicist protests that ‘whole body gestational donation’ is misunderstood
Bioethicists have chosen a lonely and disheartening profession. Locked away in an office, they pound out publications which only a few hundred of people –...
New horizons for surrogacy: ‘whole body gestational donation’
It is amazing that no one has ever discussed this at length before. What about all those brain-stem dead female bodies in hospital beds? Why...
Colombian surrogacy: unregulated and cheap
Commercial surrogacy in Colombia is unregulated and common. A feature in the Spanish newspaper El Pais begins: “Finding a surrogate in Colombia is as easy...
Indian IVF and surrogacy clinics rush to register
India is attempting to regulate its chaotic IVF sector. The milestone Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 set down that reproductive services like IVF, surrogacy,...
Mexico is the new Ukraine for the global surrogacy industry
“‘Rent My Womb’: Women Are Desperate to Become Surrogates in Mexico” is the headline in the on-line magazine Vice. The article below paints a frightening...
Will Ukraine permit surrogacy for LGBT couples?
You have to hand it to Ukrainians working in the surrogacy industry. Like their compatriots, invasion, bombardments, privations, and exile have not stopped them from...