Australia’s surrogacy laws encourage parents to look overseas. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - a popular surrogacy destination - shows the flaws of this approach.
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The surrogacy industry needs international regulation to stop the exploitation of women’s bodies.
Surrogacy is fraught with uncertainties. Proposed regulation, inspired by the way the caring professions are regulated, would protect the surrogate and provide certainty about legal parentage.
The reasons for banning compensated surrogacy in developing countries don’t apply in Australia.
Medical tourism for assisted reproductive technologies raises a host of legal and ethical questions.
There’s no evidence to say legalising commercial surrogacy here would stop people from going overseas where it’s probably cheaper and there may be less regulation.
This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born this way and the potentially devastating consequences of babies being…
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