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.
Reuters | October 16, 2024
The upper house Senate of Italy’s Parliament voted in favor of a bill that will make it illegal for couples to travel abroad to have a baby through surrogacy arrangements. The law is part of a broader effort of the Italian Prime Minister’s “Brothers of Italy” party to prevent LGBTQ people in Italy from being recognized as legal parents.
NBC News | July 3, 2024
Millions of dollars deposited in escrow accounts by families working with surrogates has gone missing. The FBI is investigating the escrow company that appears to have taken the funds intended for the surrogates.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | April 29, 2024
Two men from the UK have faced lengthy delays in obtaining passports for their infants born via surrogacy in Cyprus. Without the documents, they are unable to take their children home, and with the long wait, they are close to overstaying their visas in the country.
Kathimerini | February 16, 2024
Surrogacy is legal in Greece for intended mothers with a medical need. This article shares Greek regulations around surrogacy along with stories of intended parents and surrogates engaged in the process.
The Independent | February 6, 2024
India’s Supreme Court denied a woman’s petition challenging the law that does not allow surrogacy for single women. The judges’ reasoning included a concern for protecting the institution of marriage, which many commenters critiqued because it falls outside the constitutional considerations of the Court.
