NBC News | December 18, 2025
The FBI is investigating Surro Connections, a surrogacy agency headquartered in Washington state that abruptly closed in December 2025. The closure left pregnant surrogates without compensation or information. An estimated 150 families lost millions held in escrow by the agency.
The New York Times | December 10, 2025
The abrupt closure of a U.S. surrogacy agency closed in December amid alleged financial fraud left surrogates without support midway through pregnancy and intended parents without funds to pay them.
CTV News | December 6, 2025
U.S Border officials denied a Canadian woman entry to the U.S., claiming that her planned travel to a fertility clinic in California to be a surrogate for a U.S. family was illegal – even though her plans to be a non-compensated surrogate are within the laws of Canada and California.
Journal of Law & Society | November 21, 2025
A project in the UK focuses on the often-overlooked perspectives of children in surrogacy arrangements. Researchers engaged 37 children in card games and art to identify themes in their experiences of surrogacy, guiding the study authors’ policy recommendations for surrogacy.
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.Â
The Wall Street Journal | August 5, 2025
Los Angeles authorities are investigating a Chinese couple who were found to have more than 20 children, all born through surrogacy arrangements since 2021. Surrogates who had children for the couple report being misled or deceived about who the intended parents were or how many children they already had. Police are also investigating reports of child abuse and potential links to clients in China.Â
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.Â
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.
COMPAS | May 2, 2025
Intermediaries in Georgia’s surrogacy industry not only facilitate migration of surrogates from other countries in Central Asia to Georgia, but they also serve as the supervisors of surrogates for clinics. They respond to their needs, but they maintain tight control over surrogates’ lives.
Al Jazeera | April 9, 2025
Initially, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted Ukraine’s low-regulation, low-cost surrogacy industry catering to foreigners. Since then, Ukrainian agencies have adapted to war conditions to provide services, yet surrogates are paid less and experience worsened conditions.
