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.
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.
