By Sarah Toler | Medium | September 12, 2019
This article tells the story of Karen, a woman who carried two surrogate pregnancies and became chronically depressed after the second one. Despite being treated well during her pregnancies, Karen says she has been left to fend for herself in the face of an expensive and debilitating condition directly related to the birth.
By Chinki Sinha | India Today | September 4, 2019
Supporters of a new surrogacy bill in India say it would end the exploitation of women and protect the rights of children born through surrogacy. Opponents point out that the bill excludes all intended parents except married heterosexual couples and only allows for altruistic surrogacy, which they view as a violation of women’s rights.
By Serah Onyeche Sanni | Mondaq Business Briefing | August 28, 2019
This article summarizes how surrogacy is currently practiced in Nigeria, despite there being no legal framework. The author makes a case for establishing laws that would “curb the existence of baby factories and exploitation of both surrogate mothers and commissioning parents” and consider the interests of children “as much as the interests of the parties to the contract.”
By Alison Motluk | Hey Reprotech! | August 27, 2019
This blog post summarizes the origin story of the support network We Are Egg Donors, and explains why one of the founding members recently resigned from her leadership role.
By Xavier Symons | BioEdge | August 24, 2019
Three-year-old Bridget was conceived in the Ukraine through a surrogacy arrangement but abandoned after birth when her parents discovered she was ill and had disabilities. Her case, as this article explains, is not isolated and is promoting critics to call for stricter surrogacy regulations.
By Hannah Harris Green | Vice | August 20, 2019
This article looks at the troubling case of a same-sex couple who had to go to great lengths to establish both mothers as legal parents, and explains some of the legal barriers to establishing parentage as an LGBTQ family.
By Jen Willows | BioNews | August 19, 2019
This article summarizes the efforts of the Free Democrats Party to convince the German Bundestag parliament to liberalize the country’s surrogacy and egg donation laws and to grant single parents and LGBT families access to fertility treatment.
By Alexie Bonavia | JD Supra | August 16, 2019
Surrogacy may be growing in popularity but, as this blog post points out, complications are also on the rise. The author discusses how surrogacy laws in the UK have motivated many potential intended parents to make arrangements overseas, and emphasizes the need for greater international regulations as well as updated domestic laws.
By Ramya Kannan | The Hindu | July 26, 2019
This conversation between gender and fertility experts Dr. Kakoli Gosh Dastidar and Gita Aravamudan explores the potential shortcomings of India’s new surrogacy bill, which seeks to regulate altruistic surrogacy and put an end to “rampant commercialization of the practice.”
By The Associated Press | NBC News | July 24, 2019
This article summarizes the case of Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, a couple from Georgia who are suing the U.S. State Department for refusing to recognize the citizenship of their daughter, born in England via surrogacy.
