mint | December 4, 2025
India plans to intensify its oversight of IVF and surrogacy through stricter license renewal processes and increased inspection and monitoring efforts. Industry experts point to additional strategies needed to improve regulation of the industry and protect all parties involved.
ABC | December 3, 2025
New legislation that passed West Australia’s lower house of Parliament in December will expand access to assisted reproductive technologies and non-compensated surrogacy to same-sex couples, single people, and trans and intersex people.
Jersey Evening Post | November 3, 2025
A new government document offers guidance for those considering surrogacy in Jersey. The document comes after changes were made last year to incorporate assisted reproduction and surrogacy into processes to establish legal parentage.
Weekend Post | October 27, 2025
Botswana’s unregulated surrogacy industry operates in a legal vacuum, leading to exploitation of surrogates, many of whom are domestic workers from Zimbabwe. Policy advocates are calling for regulation to address the negative impact of power and privilege on women and girls.
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.
PET BioNews | October 13, 2025
The Irish Parliament’s Committee on Health called on the government to introduce legislation to legally recognize the parentage of Irish citizens who live abroad and had children via surrogacy.
PET BioNews | October 13, 2025
The Indian Supreme Court ruled that age limits for intended parents seeking to have children through surrogacy should not apply to those who froze embryos before new regulations came into effect in 2022. The case involved 3 couples in their 50s and 60s.
Premium Times | October 4, 2025
Surrogacy is becoming increasingly popular in Nigeria, but regulations are not keeping up with the rapid growth of the industry. Without clear laws or oversight, surrogacy exists in a grey area in the country, which leaves surrogates, who often have limited economic resources, vulnerable to harm. A proposed bill would ban compensated surrogacy and regulate non-compensated surrogacy through licensing, monitoring, and supervision of agencies.
Times of Malta | September 30, 2025
Malta’s government announced plans to amend its laws so that women who become mothers via surrogacy abroad are eligible for maternity leave. The change does not affect Malta’s ban on surrogacy but instead recognizes intended parents who travel elsewhere for surrogacy.
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.
