By Armine Avetisyan | OC Media | January 6, 2020
This article tells the story of Gayane, a surrogate mother in Armenia, and Lilit and Sedrak, a couple who wanted to be parents but was unable to get pregnant. Their journey illustrates some of the dynamics in play around commercial surrogacy in Armenia and more broadly.
DW | January 2, 2020
Germany is one of only four countries in Central and Western Europe where egg cell donation or surrogate motherhood is completely forbidden. As this article explains, there is a growing movement for overturning, or at least softening, a law many consider outdated.
By Owen Bowcott | The Guardian | December 16, 2019
A woman in the UK has lost her case against a London hospital that, she claims, should compensate her for the costs associated with making commercial surrogacy arrangements in the United States. While the hospital does acknowledge responsibility for the cancer misdiagnosis that led to her infertility, the UK Supreme Court found that payment for commercial surrogacy should not be awarded because commercial surrogacy is not legal in England.
By Jessica Weisberg | The New Yorker | December 11, 2019
In this book review, Jessica Weisberg discusses two new releases—one fiction, one non—that explore the transformative role surrogacy does and could play in families in and in society.
These three articles in The Conversation tackle different angles on the debates surrounding compensation and health care for surrogates and egg providers in Canada.
Paying Surrogates, Sperm and Egg Donors Goes Against Canadian Values by Françoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan
Egg Donors and Surrogates Need High-Quality Care by Françoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan
When Women Are Surrogate Mothers: Is That Work? by Alana Cattapan and Angela Cameron
By Lea Goetz | BioNews | November 18, 2019
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has condemned the decision by the Cambodian government to require that 30 surrogates, previously imprisoned for ‘cross-border human trafficking,’ raise the children they carried for intended parents living outside the country.
AUA Newsroom | November 12, 2019
In her talk at the American University of Armenia Turpanjian School of Public Health, Judy Norsigian, founding member of Our Bodies, Ourselves, spoke about the rapid expansion of global commercial surrogacy; the lack of consideration for the health and well-being of gestational mothers and children born of surrogacy; the importance of advancing best practices and human rights in both surrogacy and egg retrieval; and the need to be cautious about human genome modification.
By Shaina Luck | CBC News | October 28, 2019
Shelly Lyn Maynard and her husband, Mark Foley, are a Nova Scotia couple who formed their family through surrogacy. As this articles explains, they are now pursuing a Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenge to a Canadian Revenue Agency policy they claim creates undue hardship for intended parents.
By Neeta Lal | EurasiaReview | October 27, 2019
India is poised to pass a bill that will outlaw commercial surrogacy and impose restrictions on altruistic surrogacy that exclude single people and same-sex couples. This comprehensive article breaks down the perspectives offered by both supporters and critics of the bill.
By Morgan Brinlee | Romper | October 25, 2019
A new documentary from Independent Lens called Made in Boise tells the stories of four Idaho women who act as surrogates and the intended parents who compensate them for carrying pregnancies. As this article and video clip explain, one of the surprises in the documentary is the revelation that some intended parents experience postpartum depression after the births of their babies.
