Chinese hospital suspended after handing out fake birth certificates
Chinese authorities have suspended a Wuhan hospital’s ability to issue birth certificates after allegations of trafficking and falsified paternity certificates. The allegations surfaced on a...
Italy is cracking down on surrogacy
The Italian government is cracking down on both commercial and altruistic surrogacy, dismaying many gay couples. According to a feature in the Wall Street Journal,...
Georgia will shut down its commercial surrogacy industry in 2024
The war in Ukraine is changing the geography of commercial surrogacy. Before the war, Ukraine was the surrogacy capital of Europe, with good medical care,...
Canada’s surrogacy industry has a seedy side
Commercial surrogacy is a many-faceted problem, ethically, medically, and politically. One feature which seldom surfaces in sanitised accounts of surrogacy is the business side. As...
Greece rocked by surrogacy scandal
Greece is one of the few countries where commercial surrogacy is legal for international clients. But the country has been rocked by a huge scandal...
The dark down-side of California surrogacy
California has become a haven for commercial surrogacy. One of its attractions is that the commissioning parents, in effect, “own” the developing child. The surrogate...
Georgia to ban international surrogacy
The government of Georgia is planning to ban commercial surrogacy for foreign couples after 2023. A draft law would permit only altruistic surrogacy. Prime Minister...
Is surrogacy a way of combatting ‘compulsory familialism’?
For people on either side of the debate, surrogacy can seem like a black-and-white issue. Opponents stress human dignity; supporters stress autonomy. For both the...
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...