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
UK surrogacy laws require intended parents to apply to become legal parents, which can take up to a year to be finalized. In the meantime, intended parents have no legal rights to the child, including the ability to make decisions in the case of medical emergencies.
Carolyn Barber | Fortune Well | November 17, 2022
The surrogacy industry is booming in the US with little to no oversight. Clinics often fail to inform potential surrogates about risks of IVF, which can lead to dangerous complications for them and for the children.
Ellen Trachman | Above the Law | November 16, 2022
The US-based nonprofit SEEDS recognizes ethical challenges of the surrogacy industry and is establishing best practices for surrogacy agencies to follow. But even this approach assumes, with evidence to the contrary, that US clinics will be able to self-regulate.
Pat Leahy & Kitty Holland | The Irish Times | November 13, 2022
Many Irish couples pursue surrogacy as a means to form families, usually in Ukraine. A new law will permit commercial surrogacy abroad but ban it in Ireland. It will also make it easier for intended parents to be legally recognized in Ireland.
Samantha Selinger-Morris | The Sydney Morning Herald | November 10, 2022
In Australia, ethical concerns with commercial surrogacy resulted in a ban on the practice; only altruistic surrogacy is legal. Couples often venture abroad in the hopes of finding a surrogate in countries where payment is legal.
The Hindu | November 8, 2022
Petitioners challenging India’s surrogacy law–including the ban on payment–argue that it violates the right to reproductive autonomy, which they deem a part of the right to privacy guaranteed in the Constitution. But the Indian government opposes any dilution of the law.
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.
Charlie Campbell | Time | November 3, 2022
Surrogacy & adoption services in Thailand are only available to legally married couples, excluding LGBTQ people. Proposed legislation would expand access for LGBTQ families, including for this transgender mom and her adopted children.
Kathryn Madden | Marie Claire | November 2, 2022
With a legislative prohibition on compensated surrogacy, many Australian couples look abroad for surrogates, sometimes pursuing dangerous or illegal arrangements. Do these precarious agreements leave surrogates vulnerable to exploitation?
