USA Today | July 8, 2026
At the direction of the lieutenant governor, the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee is investigating foreign involvement in the state’s surrogacy industry. The Texas Republican party’s platform endorses a ban on compensated surrogacy for foreigners, citing concerns about foreigners obtaining US citizenship for their children via surrogacy. Critics – who note the small percentage of surrogacy cases involving foreigners in Texas – see the concern as a veiled attempt to further curtail access to reproductive technologies, including IVF, in the state.