The Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) on Friday announced a strict ban on “all forms of surrogacy,” and made “organizing surrogacy” a criminal offense with “severe legal penalties.” The post China Bans Surrogate Motherhood, Raids Underground Clinics appeared first on Breitbart .
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is facing pressure to reform laws that would make surrogacy easier, but opponents who recognize the practice as commodifying children are calling for a ban.
The bill was introduced to address the lack of regulations on surrogacy. The proposed law penalizes the practice but does not criminalize the pregnant woman and makes her the legal mother.
A homosexual couple rented a Chinese woman in a rural village for £93,000 ($125,000) to serve as a surrogate – but plans to ask for a partial refund if she gives birth to a girl. According to The Christian Institute, the two men “used genetic testing to prioritise the implantation of male embryos.” Surrogacy is [...] The post Gay couple demands refund if surrogate gives birth to girl first appeared on The Bridgehead .
A contract clause said the couple would “prioritise the transplant of ‘male’ embryos first." If the surrogate had a girl, they would get a partial refund.
A British court has granted legal parenthood to two men who paid almost £93,000 for a commercial surrogacy arrangement in China that prioritised male embryos and included a clause providing for a partial refund if a boy was not born. In a judgment published on 29 September, Mr Justice MacDonald, a senior judge specialising in […]
Two legal cases concerning surrogacy made headlines this summer. Both arose after surrogates were pressured to abort in the second trimester due to fetal anomalies: in Ontario, a cleft lip and possible other health problems; in Alaska, hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
The Miracle Surrogacy agency demonstrates how the practice commodifies children by offering a discount for initiating two surrogacy ‘journeys’ at the same time.
The surrogacy and IVF industries in the U.S. have become lucrative businesses in the global marketplace, with surrogacy expected to experience explosive growth.
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his male partner have announced they are using a surrogate and an egg donor -- two women they know -- to have a child.
From their inception, the surrogacy and IVF industries have turned children and women into transactional commodities to satisfy the desires of paying adults.
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 14, the Group of Experts of the Declaration of Casablanca for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy, along with a group of 160 non-government organizations spanning the globe, sent a letter to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child asking it to recognize that surrogacy constitutes the sale of [...] The post UN pressed to act on surrogacy appeared first on The Interim .
"With ordinary pregnancies, everyone understands that the baby is going to seek out its mother... what is familiar." But with surrogacy, this is "erased."
McKenna West previously claimed that the California couple pressured her for weeks and insisted that she get an abortion after the child was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
McKenna West entered surrogacy believing she was doing something generous. A single mother from Alaska, she hoped to help an infertile couple have a child while earning money to support her own family.
Trump, while railing against Empire State Democrats at a rally in Syracuse Friday, blasted “radical left lunatic” Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislators passing a bill to change laws around surrogacy to refer to a “gestating” or “non-gestating” parent as well as calling them “parentage” hearings instead of “paternity.”
A CA couple who had 21 children through surrogacy has been arrested for child abuse, with investigators describing their residence as a "house of horrors."
An Arcadia couple who have been accused of child abuse in a surrogacy scandal have been arrested in their Arcadia mansion by LA County Sheriff’s Departmen in a joint operation with the FBI . Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan had 21 children, most of whom were born via surrogacy Zhang