Irish Legal News | February 2, 2023
A new U.K. study asked young people born through surrogacy their views on surrogacy law. Children were positive about altruistic surrogacy involving an open contact, but were concerned about arrangements that involved financial compensation.
Progress Educational Trust | January 23, 2023
The U.K. is in the process of reconsidering its surrogacy laws. Potential reforms include surrogacy birth registration, the process through which intended parents acquire legal parenthood, surrogates’ expenses, and how people born through surrogacy can access information about their origins.
Dr Marilyn Crawshaw & Nina Barnsley | Progress | December 19, 2022
While research and discussions around surrogacy increasingly address relationships between surrogates and intended parents, they often fail to include egg donors, leading to marginalization of donors and lack of full knowledge of genetic origins for donor conceived people.
Shanti Das & Simon Bowers & Malia Politzer | The Guardian | December 18, 2022
UK surrogacy laws require intended parents to apply to become legal parents, which can take up to a year to be finalized. In the meantime, intended parents have no legal rights to the child, including the ability to make decisions in the case of medical emergencies.
Maya Oppenheim | Independent | November 27, 2022
UK surrogacy laws require intended parents to apply to become legal parents, which can take up to a year to be finalized. In the meantime, intended parents have no legal rights to the child, including the ability to make decisions in the case of medical emergencies.
Maya Oppenheim | Independent | November 27, 2022
2021 brought a sharp increase in the number of women in the UK volunteering to be surrogates. Factors contributing to the uptick include increasing social acceptability of surrogacy and desire to support LGBTQ families.
Jim Norton | Daily Mail | July 12, 2022
A new, Tinder-style app in the UK will use Artificial Intelligence to match intended parents to potential surrogates according to selected characteristics.
Hannah Devlin | The Guardian | May 20, 2022
Due to the rapid rise of consumer genetic testing, the UK’s HFEA is considering removing the anonymity period for sperm and egg donors. This would allow contact between donors, donor-conceived people, and their genetic parents, but first the change requires careful consideration by all parties.
Natalie Morris | Metro.co.uk | May 13, 2022
Waiting times for nationally-provided fertility treatment in the UK grew from 6 to 15 months after the pandemic. Consequently, the demand for private alternatives grew, which created a competitive marketplace with some clinics turning to deceptive marketing techniques.
Matthew Weaver | The Guardian | May 10, 2022
A couple intending to enter into a surrogacy arrangement in Belarus is facing imprisonment because their travel visa is going to expire, but they cannot leave the country because the wife’s passport is stuck in an administrative backlog in the UK.