The West Australian | October 13, 2025
With pledged support from the Greens, the Labor party’s surrogacy reforms that passed Western Australia’s lower house of Parliament in September now have a better chance of passing the Upper House. The reforms would expand access to surrogacy to LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples.
Q News | September 19, 2025
Western Australia currently bans non-compensated surrogacy for gay and single men. A bill that passed the Lower House of Parliament would eliminate the ban and would give donor-conceived people more access to information about their heritage, but it first has to pass the Upper House of Parliament.
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.
Jerusalem Post | July 1, 2025
Israel’s new entry regulation means that infants born abroad via surrogacy cannot enter the country with a foreign passport and instead have to first become naturalized in their country of birth and obtain an Israeli passport. The change has impacted many couples, including LGBTQ families, who remain abroad to complete the lengthy naturalization process for their newborn children.
Progress Educational Trust | May 19, 2025
Italy’s recently enacted ban of surrogacy arrangements, even in countries where surrogacy is legal, has faced criticism from many LGBTQ+ parents and advocates in Italy. They object to the blanket nature of the ban, which affects all surrogacy arrangements, and they raise concerns about the ban stigmatizing LGBTQ+ families.
Associated Press | April 1, 2025
As part of a reform to the civil code, Greece is changing how it defines medical infertility. The change excludes single men and male same-sex couples from having children via surrogacy in Greece.
The Politic | March 31, 2025
Italy’s recent law making surrogacy a “universal crime” in the country may face judicial challenges and scrutiny from the European Union. The law and the response to it raise questions, both about reproductive freedom and about exploitation and vulnerabilities in current surrogacy practices.
The Guardian | March 17, 2025
The Italian parents of a child who was recently born in the US via surrogacy are concerned that if they return to Italy, they will be prosecuted under Italy’s new law, which extended criminalization of surrogacy in Italian law beyond Italy to other countries, including those where the practice is legal.
The Conversation | March 5, 2025
Trump’s (blocked) order to end US birthright citizenship would jeopardize legal recognition of LGBTQ+ parents and leave some children born through assisted reproduction stateless.
Bloomberg News | December 5, 2024
Compensated surrogacy is banned in Hong Kong, but many people are traveling abroad seeking surrogacy arrangements and gamete donation––in part because IVF access in Hong Kong excludes single people and the LGBTQ community.
