Dr Marilyn Crawshaw & Nina Barnsley | Progress | December 19, 2022
While research and discussions around surrogacy increasingly address relationships between surrogates and intended parents, they often fail to include egg donors, leading to marginalization of donors and lack of full knowledge of genetic origins for donor conceived people.
Shanti Das & Simon Bowers & Malia Politzer | The Guardian | December 18, 2022
UK surrogacy laws require intended parents to apply to become legal parents, which can take up to a year to be finalized. In the meantime, intended parents have no legal rights to the child, including the ability to make decisions in the case of medical emergencies.
Department of Health | gov.ie | December 13, 2022
The Irish Government approved policy and legislative proposals that would introduce a two-step process to recognize legal parentage in future international surrogacy arrangements and in some past surrogacy arrangements. The process includes safeguards to protect the child, the surrogate, and the intended parents.
News Desk | The European Times | December 10, 2022
The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, passed a bill banning foreigners from hiring Russian surrogates. Married couples in which one spouse is a Russian citizen will be able to pursue surrogacy in Russia, but a child born to a surrogate in Russia will automatically receive Russian citizenship.
Team MP | millenniumpost | December 8, 2022
The State Health Department in Kolkata has clarified the guidelines regulating surrogacy in India, which came into effect in January 2021. They detail the medical conditions that permit a woman to opt for surrogacy and stipulate that the intending parents must be married and fall within a particular age range.
Akinwale Kasali | The Source | December 7, 2022
Nigerian lawmakers are discussing the need for regulation of surrogacy in the country, with some emphasizing the importance of protecting the rights of women and children who are involved in surrogacy.
NL Times | December 3, 2022
Health insurers in the Netherlands will cover the costs of IVF and surrogacy for cisgender women who are otherwise unable to carry a pregnancy to term. Surrogacy will not be covered for male couples, single prospective fathers or transgender people.
Gina Agapiou | CyprusMail | November 30, 2022
A new draft bill in Cyprus would allow unmarried women who are unable to conceive due to medical issues the chance to pursue surrogacy, but only if they obtain permission from Cyprus’ Council for Medical Assisted Human Reproduction.
Maya Oppenheim | Independent | November 27, 2022
UK surrogacy laws require intended parents to apply to become legal parents, which can take up to a year to be finalized. In the meantime, intended parents have no legal rights to the child, including the ability to make decisions in the case of medical emergencies.
Maya Oppenheim | Independent | November 27, 2022
2021 brought a sharp increase in the number of women in the UK volunteering to be surrogates. Factors contributing to the uptick include increasing social acceptability of surrogacy and desire to support LGBTQ families.