The Guardian | March 18, 2023
Although Victoria legalized adoption for same-sex couples in 2017, that route to family formation leads nowhere for most same-sex couples hoping to adopt––in part due to bias and in part due to decreasing adoptions more broadly. Many same-sex couples turn to surrogacy instead.
Jerusalem Post | February 22, 2023
The first baby born to a gay couple via surrogacy in Israel took place last month, after a new law implemented last year allowed single fathers, same-sex couples and transgender people to hire surrogates domestically.
Progress Educational Trust | February 13, 2023
In Italy, senators close to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have proposed a bill that would fine or imprison Italian couples who seek surrogacy abroad, further reducing the limited options for LGBTQ couples to form families.
Above the Law | February 8, 2023
In a recent case, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that in future cases, no parental status should be recognized for parents of children by surrogacy without a genetic connection to the child.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | January 17, 2023
The Israeli Supreme Court extended the right to have children via surrogates to same sex couples in 2021. But its new anti-LGBTQ government put these and other protections in jeopardy.
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.
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.
Conor Courtney | Irish Legal News | November 7, 2022
A same sex couple alleged discrimination after being denied access to public funding for IVF w/ a surrogate, but Northern Ireland’s High Court found that funding for IVF was meant for medical infertility, not surrogacy arrangements.
Angela Giuffrida | The Guardian | October 24, 2022
LGBTQ people in Italy fear that Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni will act on her campaign promises to limit opportunities for them to form families, including banning LGTBQ couples from seeking surrogacy abroad.
Drane & McGunagle & Jacobson | North Carolina Public Radio | October 21, 2022
Surrogacy intersects with big questions about power dynamics, reproductive justice and who gets to make decisions about how you can build a family. But the loudest voices in the conversation are rarely the surrogates themselves.
