WBUR | September 17, 2025
A recent viral story of an intended parent’s attempts to punish a surrogate who had a stillbirth demonstrates how the industry and its lack of regulations leave surrogates vulnerable when complications arise.
France’s Heated Debate: Can ‘Ethical’ Surrogacy Ever Work?
MedScape | September 12, 2025
Surrogacy is currently illegal in France, but the return of a former prime minister to the political stage could change that. Gabriel Attal has launched an effort to explore surrogacy within his political party with the possibility of updating the party’s platform before the next presidential election.
WA government reintroduces long-awaited surrogacy, IVF reforms
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.
UK Parliamentary office calls for submissions on surrogacy
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | August 11, 2025
The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology plans to write a POSTnote, a briefing document that informs policy and legislation, on surrogacy law in the UK and internationally. The office issued a call for stakeholder submissions to inform the document, which could put surrogacy reform back on the legislative agenda in the UK.
The legal limbo of UK surrogacy
Prospect | July 30, 2025
Because surrogacy contracts are not enforceable in the UK, disputes between surrogates and intended parents over parental rights quickly become complicated. Legal reforms would bring needed clarification for surrogates, intended parents, and children born via surrogacy.
40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?
Progress Educational Trust BioNews | July 28, 2025
An online event held by Progress Educational Trust brought together six speakers, including a surrogate, an intended parent, and surrogacy researchers and lawyers, to discuss changes in surrogacy in the UK since the Surrogacy Arrangements Act came into effect 40 years ago.
Event Review: Two Years On – Assessing the impact of surrogacy ‘reforms’ on future reproductive technologies
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.
Israeli couple stranded in Colombia after surrogacy birth due to sudden entry regulation change
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.
Amid review, debate over Australia’s surrogacy laws
Debate grows over Australia’s surrogacy laws as more couples look overseas
ABC News | June 27, 2025
Increasingly, Australians are going abroad for surrogacy arrangements, in part because Australia only allows non-compensated surrogacy. The Australian Law Reform Commission is conducting a review of the country’s surrogacy laws, but debate over the ethics of compensated surrogacy continues.
Should commercial surrogacy be allowed in Australia?
ABC News AM | June 26, 2025
Although compensated surrogacy is currently illegal in Australia, an ongoing review of the law could change that. Some advocates argue that allowing surrogates to be paid would make it easier for intended parents to find surrogates in Australia and would avoid the issue of lawyers and clinicians being paid, while the surrogate is not. Opponents of legalization argue it would lead to exploitation of vulnerable women, citing examples of recent cases in India and Thailand.
Illegal surrogacy punishable by up to 19 years in jail, Lao government warns as cases reported
Vientiane Times | June 2, 2025
In response to several investigations and arrests related to illegal surrogacy operations, authorities in Laos are warning the public that surrogacy-related human trafficking convictions can carry a prison sentence of up to 19 years.