Global Taiwan Institute | October 29, 2025
Surrogacy is illegal in Taiwan so intended parents travel abroad for surrogacy arrangements, which often creates legal complications. Domestic policy that considers both the welfare of children and the rights of surrogates would help address issues that emerge from cross-border surrogacy arrangements.
Taipei Times | December 4, 2024
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare will not include surrogacy in proposed amendments to the Assisted Reproduction Act due to opposition from women’s rights groups. This will allow legislative changes with broad support–making artificial insemination accessible to single women and women with same-sex partners–to move forward.
Taipei Times | October 10, 2024
After receiving public feedback over the summer, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare expects to submit amendments related to IVF access for executive review by the end of the year. The Minister of Health and Welfare reported that they are “proceeding with caution” in developing surrogacy regulations and have met with experts in ethics, medicine, and the rights of women and children to discuss surrogacy.
Focus Taiwan | June 15, 2024
As Taiwan prepares to legalize surrogacy, LGBTQ advocates hope that same-sex couples and single-parent families will be included in the laws defining the use of surrogacy.
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Focus Taiwan | June 15, 2024
After public hearings earlier in 2024, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to amend the Assisted Reproduction Act to legalize surrogacy, a move supported by many LGBTQ families who sought surrogacy arrangements abroad. Some women’s groups and scholars want to see surrogacy addressed in separate law amendments.
Taipei Times | May 15, 2024
Amendments drafted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare would legalize uncompensated surrogacy and provide guidelines for surrogacy arrangements, insurance, and payment for expenses.The amendments would also legalize assisted reproduction for single women and lesbian couples.
Focus Taiwan | February 21, 2024
Women’s rights groups in Taiwan asked the government to first address the issue of single women and lesbian couples’ access to sperm and egg donation before considering surrogacy, to avoid delay due to the complexities of surrogacy regulation.
Taipei Times | January 23, 2024
A proposed amendment to Taiwan’s Assisted Reproduction Act would legalize surrogacy and make same-sex couples and single women eligible for assisted reproduction. Some civic groups who oppose legalizing surrogacy spoke out against the amendment.
Focus Taiwan | November 8, 2023
Surrogacy is currently illegal in Taiwan, but the country’s Ministry of Health and Welfare is preparing to draft revisions to its Assisted Reproduction Act. The changes would legalize surrogacy and to grant same-sex couples and single women equal rights to assisted reproduction.
Clio Yang | ABC News | February 21, 2022
Mr. Tsou and his husband are looking for international surrogacy arrangements because adoption by gay married couples is not legal in Taiwan. However, a couple of exceptions have been granted in the best interest of the child, and more inclusive ART legislation is being reviewed by the government.
