Progress Educational Trust BioNews | July 7, 2025
At a recent symposium at the University of Greenwich, researchers discussed the Law Commissions’ 2023 report and its recommendations for surrogacy law reform in the UK. They brought up issues unresolved in the report, including origin information on birth certificates, the implications of a surrogacy register, and the regulation of surrogacy advertising.
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | May 19, 2025
Citing other legislative priorities, the UK Government announced that despite its support for surrogacy, it is postponing updates to UK surrogacy law––a project that the Law Commission of England and Wales recommended in a report of proposed reforms published jointly with the Scottish Law Commission in 2023.
Proposed reforms to UK surrogacy law published by the Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales include a new “pathway” for intended parents to become legal parents as soon as the child is born, as well as a continued ban on payment for surrogacy. These articles explain or provide commentary on the proposed reforms as well as implications should they be implemented.
Surrogacy Law: What Is Intended… For Parents? For Surrogates? For Children? by Zaina Mahmoud, Progress Educational Trust
PET Podcast: Surrogacy Law – What Is Intended… For Parents? For Surrogates? For Children?by Sarah Norcross, Progress Educational Trust
Pandora’s box: Implications of surrogacy law reform proposals for birth registration by Thérèse Callus, Progress Educational Trust
Law Commissions’ proposals won’t achieve surrogacy modernisation by Natalie Gamble, Progress Educational Trust
Law Commissions publish draft surrogacy bill by Zoe Beketova, Progress Educational Trust
Intended parents should get legal status from birth, says British surrogacy review by Haroon Siddique, The Guardian
Surrogacy shake up in UK would create uneven treatment for birth mothers by Teresa Baron, The Conversation
By Catherine Hill | BioNews | September 30, 2019
Surrogacy legislation in Scotland has not been updated since 1985. This article summarizes the proceedings at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and the Scottish Government’s joint public event, during which potential changes to the law were debated by doctors, academics, surrogates, and others, with an emphasis on safety for surrogates and children.
