UK surrogacy law reform: what you need to know about the proposed changes and how they could affect you.
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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.
Surrogacy can be exploitative, but a theologian writes how it can also remind individuals that family is not just biological but also social and relational.
Judges have described New Zealand’s surrogacy parentage laws as ‘creaky’ and ‘inadequate’. The Law Commission has finally proposed significant reform.
New research explores the little-understood problem facing many LGBTIQ+ people — the loss of citizenship due to discriminatory laws and difficulties claiming asylum.
As more choices become theoretically available to prospective parents, it’s important to understand their rights.
Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.
Who is a child’s legal parent? The question is at the heart of a case due before the High Court this year. It may have implications for children born via IVF or surrogacy, and the people who raise them.
The law needs to be more realistic about surrogacy services and payment, and reflect what is actually happening between couples and surrogates.
The surrogacy industry needs international regulation to stop the exploitation of women’s bodies.
The number of UK babies being born to surrogate mothers has risen by 255% in the past six years.
There are sound ethical reasons behind Canada’s decision to ban payment to surrogate mothers and sperm and egg donors in 2004. A new push to remove the restrictions ignores the risks.
Surrogate mothers in developing countries are being shuffled across borders to evade a crackdown on the industry. This emerging gray market puts women at risk.
Health Canada is drafting important regulations for assisted reproductive technologies. Initial documents treat egg donors and surrogates as little more than spare parts and walking wombs.
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.
As the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society urges the government to consider “compensation” for surrogacy, we need to talk about the implications of this rhetoric for women.
South Africa lacks a clear definition of disability – and its limited view of who should be regarded as having a disability in the labour market is at odds with international practice.
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.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Academic; Consultant (Health Law), University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor and Director of Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health & Human Rights, Monash University
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Professor of Sexual Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Training and Development, RMIT University
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Senior lecturer in law, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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