Maui Now | January 4, 2026
Hawai’i passed legislation updating the state’s parentage laws, incorporating assisted reproduction and surrogacy. The new law strengthens protections for LGBTQIA+ parents and their children.
Reforming Surrogacy Law: Listening to Children Through Art
Journal of Law & Society | November 21, 2025
A project in the UK focuses on the often-overlooked perspectives of children in surrogacy arrangements. Researchers engaged 37 children in card games and art to identify themes in their experiences of surrogacy, guiding the study authors’ policy recommendations for surrogacy.
They Needed a Surrogate, So They Asked a Sibling to Do It
The Wall Street Journal | August 19, 2025
With surrogacy expenses often surpassing $200,000 in the U.S., some couples make surrogacy arrangements with family members or friends. While these arrangements often cost less, they can result in legal complications and complex relationship dynamics.
Police rescue 11 babies in major bust on international surrogacy ring exploiting Vietnamese women
The Independent | August 10, 2025
Vietnamese authorities report that they have dismantled an international surrogacy network between Vietnam, China, and Cambodia and have rescued 11 infants from the operation. The network violated Vietnamese laws that prohibit compensated surrogacy.
The Mystery of the L.A. Mansion Filled With Surrogate Children
The Wall Street Journal | August 5, 2025
Los Angeles authorities are investigating a Chinese couple who were found to have more than 20 children, all born through surrogacy arrangements since 2021. Surrogates who had children for the couple report being misled or deceived about who the intended parents were or how many children they already had. Police are also investigating reports of child abuse and potential links to clients in China.
International Approaches to Surrogacy Regulation
The Regulatory Review | March 2, 2024
In the absence of an international legal framework, country-specific legislation on surrogacy spans a spectrum. This article summarizes a range of perspectives on the benefits and risks of surrogacy and features research analyzing various approaches to regulation.
Stateless Children and Parents Who Are Legal ‘Strangers’: The Irish Families Left in Limbo
By Peter McGuire | thejournal.ie | July 14, 2020
This article provides a brief history of the rights of parents in Ireland whose children are conceived through assisted reproduction. The author posits that legal protections for children conceived outside traditional heterosexual relationships still fall short. For example, birth certificates of children born to same-sex couples do not recognize both parents as legal guardians. In one case, an Irish couple who conceived a child with the help of a surrogate in the United States had to sign an affidavit stating that one parent is a legal stranger in order to attain an Irish passport for their newborn. Despite recommendations from the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR), the article asserts that legislation has yet to be made to make assisted reproduction more accessible for all family structures involved.
We Missed Our Baby’s Birth Because of Covid-19
Outlook | BBC Sounds | June 16, 2020
In this BBC World Service podcast, Emily Webb interviews Patrick and Enitan Goredema from Canada about their experience becoming parents during COVID-19. They discuss their earlier struggle with infertility and IVF, cultural attitudes toward infertility in their home countries of Zimbabwe and Nigeria, and dynamics around the race of the surrogate. Patrick and Enitan describe the process of undergoing egg retrieval abroad, Skyping with the surrogate, and having to cross two borders and quarantine in Georgia before meeting their child.
The Surrogate is in Oregon. The Parents are in China. And the Baby is in Limbo.
By Libby Dowsett | The Oregonian/OregonLive | April 5, 2020
A surrogate mother in Oregon explains how the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions have drastically changed the birth plan for the child, whose parents are in China. In this article, new questions arise, such as when will the child’s parents be able to come to America and who will be the child’s guardian in the meantime?
How Coronavirus Is Affecting Surrogacy, Foster Care and Adoption
By David Dodge | New York Times | April 1, 2020
How has coronavirus impacted surrogacy, adoption, and foster care? This article explores how global travel restrictions have left surrogacy agencies in the United States scrambling for exemptions for their international clients — particularly for those working with surrogates who are scheduled to give birth in the next month or two.