The Independent | August 11, 2024
After the UK announced increased compensation for egg donors due to inflation, campaigners who advocate on issues including surrogacy raised concerns that the increase would be exploitative, especially for low-income women, and highlighted risks of egg retrieval downplayed in the recruitment process.
Progress Educational Trust | July 8, 2024
A non-peer-reviewed cohort study conducted in Canada found that gestational surrogates face an increased risk of serious complications, including hypertension and postpartum hemorrhage, linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
NBC News | July 3, 2024
Millions of dollars deposited in escrow accounts by families working with surrogates has gone missing. The FBI is investigating the escrow company that appears to have taken the funds intended for the surrogates.
Kathimerini | February 16, 2024
Surrogacy is legal in Greece for intended mothers with a medical need. This article shares Greek regulations around surrogacy along with stories of intended parents and surrogates engaged in the process.
Woodtv | October 25, 2023
Proposed bills in Michigan would repeal the state’s Surrogate Parenting Act and replace it with new legislation that would decriminalize surrogacy, make it easier for intended parents to establish legal parentage, and allow children born via surrogacy to receive a birth certificate.
Surrogate Voices | October 14, 2023
A new U.K. coalition, Surrogate Voices, advocates for consulting surrogates in shaping regulations and protections. They also challenge the conflation of U.K. altruistic surrogacy arrangements with compensated arrangements.
The Standard | September 19, 2023
Shenzhen health authorities arrested six women, including a surrogate mother, an egg donor, a client waiting for an embryo transfer, laboratory staff and two nurses participating in an illegal surrogacy operation run by one man, who was also arrested.
LA Review of Books | September 16, 2023
Two recent books examine feminism in South Korea and China and draw attention to US involvement in reproductive control efforts in both countries. Motivated in part by incentives from the US, the South Korean government adopted population control policies that curtailed women’s reproductive rights.
The Chinese government’s implementation of the one-child policy helped spur the growth of a form of decentralized Chinese feminism distinct from Western autonomy-focused feminism. One evident example of the contrast is disagreement about whether surrogacy is a matter of women’s choice or will inevitably lead to the exploitation of poor women.
Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center | September 4, 2023
England and Wales do not allow compensated surrogacy on the logic that altruistic surrogacy better protects surrogates from exploitation, but in doing so, UK law supports a long history of devaluing women’s reproductive labor.
RTE | June 13, 2023
Two Irish filmmakers received funding from Netflix to make a short documentary about an Irish mother who brought her Ukrainian surrogate and family to live with her own family after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The key theme of the film is “connection.”
