The Guardian | March 17, 2025
The Italian parents of a child who was recently born in the US via surrogacy are concerned that if they return to Italy, they will be prosecuted under Italy’s new law, which extended criminalization of surrogacy in Italian law beyond Italy to other countries, including those where the practice is legal.
February 3, 2025 | Progress Educational Trust
An episode of an Al Jazeera documentary series shows how surrogacy arrangements operate in the Philippines, where surrogacy is neither illegal nor regulated. It also shows what motivates some women to be surrogates and how they are vulnerable to exploitation.
PET | January 13, 2025
Thirteen women from the Philippines acting as surrogates in Cambodia were convicted under Cambodian human trafficking laws, but they received royal pardons and were taken back to the Philippines. Most are still pregnant while some were repatriated with children they birthed as a result of the surrogacy arrangements.
BBC | December 3, 2024
Thirteen pregnant women from the Philippines who were part of an underground surrogacy operation have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia and were sentenced to 4 years in prison once they give birth.
Rappler | December 1, 2024
Although surrogacy itself is not regulated in the Philippines, many surrogacy clinics illegally falsify birth certificates of children born via surrogacy to avoid the time-consuming process of changing parentage from the birth mother to intended parents.
Rappler | November 30, 2024
The surrogacy industry in the Philippines is growing, but without regulations to govern the practice, surrogates and intended parents have little protection from exploitation.
The Guardian | October 22, 2024
Following police raids in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina, prosecutors are investigating an international surrogacy ring that they say exploited low-income women and denied them payments for surrogacy if they had a miscarriage.
CNN | October 13, 2024
A police raid on a villa in Cambodia found 13 pregnant Philippine women who they suspected to be surrogates, which is illegal in Cambodia. Cambodian authorities say that the women were charged with crimes under the country’s human trafficking laws and may face prison time, but details of the case have not yet come to light.
The Guardian | September 23, 2024
New research that reveals that surrogates are at higher risk for health complications underscores the scarcity of knowledge about risks and outcomes for surrogates and babies, and the need for greater research and regulation.
SHINE | August 29, 2024
A whistleblower reported that doctors from a hospital in the Chinese city of Qingdao were illegally conducting egg retrieval and embryo transfer procedures in collaboration with an underground surrogacy operation. The city’s health commission has launched an investigation.
