LA Times | October 2, 2025
Police investigation of a Chinese couple in LA who have had over 20 children via surrogacy revealed video footage of nannies inflicting “emotional and physical abuse” on some of the children. It also unearthed ties between the couple and illicit gambling and drug operations.
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.
ABC | August 12, 2025
A bill will be introduced in Western Australia’s parliament to reform the state’s laws on IVF and surrogacy. The changes would expand access to non-compensated surrogacy to include same-sex male couples, single men, transgender and intersex people, and would enable recognition of two same-sex partners as legal parents of children born via surrogacy.
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.
Prospect | July 30, 2025
Because surrogacy contracts are not enforceable in the UK, disputes between surrogates and intended parents over parental rights quickly become complicated. Legal reforms would bring needed clarification for surrogates, intended parents, and children born via surrogacy.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | July 28, 2025
An online event held by Progress Educational Trust brought together six speakers, including a surrogate, an intended parent, and surrogacy researchers and lawyers, to discuss changes in surrogacy in the UK since the Surrogacy Arrangements Act came into effect 40 years ago.
Progress Educational Trust | March 10, 2025
English courts’ recent rulings on legal parentage and international surrogacy journeys that involved actual or potential illegality make it clear that the courts see intended parents as responsible for doing their due diligence. The courts can refuse to issue parental orders if they find that intended parents have not.
CBC | December 26, 2024
Parental benefits for some Canadian employees require that they provide documentation that they are pregnant, which leaves couples forming families via surrogacy ineligible. So far, efforts to change the policy, or to expand the federal definition of maternity benefits, have not succeeded.
Rappler | November 30, 2024
The surrogacy industry in the Philippines is growing, but without regulations to govern the practice, surrogates and intended parents have little protection from exploitation.
Gothamist | October 28, 2024
A new benefit will allow non-union New York City employees to be reimbursed up to $10,000 for expenses from surrogacy and other family formation services, including adoption and gamete donation.
