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Content substantially addressing surrogacy.
Flanders recounts Stephanie Levesque Murphy's allegation that intended parents pressured her to abort after a prenatal heart-condition diagnosis. Murphy describes refusing abortion, losing support, and being left without information about the child after birth.
Read →The Ukrainian company BioTexCom will hold a surrogacy fair from September 12–13 in Warsaw.
Read →One of the gravest evils facing the modern world is that of surrogacy. More than 100 years ago, Americans fought...
Read →The Polish Bishops’ Conference issued a statement on August 27 condemning surrogacy, calling it "evil and incompatible with the Christian faith and morality." The statement reportedly comes as some seek an expansion of commercial surrogacy in the country.
Read →“A click, signature, or brief review should not magically transfer responsibility from an AI developer or platform to a physician,” a reader tells STAT.
Read →The twins' parents didn't arrive, and it was painful to hear them cry with no one to hold them. She was sent home after delivery & the $20k payment never came.
Read →For more than two decades, the Center for Bioethics and Culture has warned that surrogacy is not simply another way to “build a family.” It is a practice that turns pregnancy into a service, places women’s bodies under contract, separates children from their birth mothers by design, and has created a global industry that profits […] The post The World Is Waking Up to the Harms of Surrogacy appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →Flanders critiques a published account of a woman who became pregnant while a surrogate was carrying another child for her family. She questions the account's framing of the subsequent abortion as necessary and discusses the overlap between infertility treatment, surrogacy, and abortion.
Read →In this episode of Solid Ground, Simon shares good news coming out of Missouri (USA) around babies born alive; a UN representative calling Australia out for its gender madness and surrogacy laws; and new research showing that cannabis use harms young people. The post Solid Ground – 25 August 2026 appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →On Wednesday, August 12, a baby boy was born three weeks early in a hospital near Dallas. This is hardly an unusual event. However, that this particular child was born was a near miracle. Baby Gabriel had been the target of a conspiracy against his life that nearly resulted in his destruction, and which has… The post Baby Gabriel and the Abortion Clause: The Dark Reality of Surrogacy appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →Baby Gabriel is alive and recovering from his first major heart surgery in his biological parents’ custody while they sue the surrogate who refused to abort him. The case captured national attention when it broke about two weeks ago, raising serious questions about IVF, commercial surrogacy and what happens when adults disagree about whether a […] The post Update: Baby Gabriel Survives First Heart Surgery; Biological Parents Sue Surrogate appeared first on Daily Citizen .
Read →It feels like whiplash at the CBC. Everywhere we turn, someone is talking about surrogacy. After years of euphemisms and carefully crafted messaging, the realities of commercial surrogacy are finally breaking into the mainstream. A growing number of high-profile cases are exposing what the industry has worked hard to obscure: surrogacy depends upon profound disparities […] The post Surrogacy Gets a Reckoning appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →Dr. Kody W. Cooper What else is a surrogacy contract but the treatment of unborn human beings as chattels to be traded for money and discarded if the “product” is “defective”?
Read →Meyrat examines a reported dispute in which surrogate mother McKenna West refused an intended couple's request to abort a baby with a heart condition. He uses the custody and treatment conflict to argue that commercial surrogacy compromises children's dignity and makes their protection depend on contractual demands.
Read →To protect women and children, we have to let go of the illusion that surrogacy is anything other than a form of human trafficking. Today, women everywhere are finding it harder than in previous years to get and keep work. Since the start of the pandemic, Forbes reports, more than five millio... The post Renting Wombs, Rending Hearts: The Dark Realities of Surrogacy appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →“Everything about the West case shows how miserably surrogacy has been managed in America,” writes Arthur Caplan.
Read →After going to Texas to ensure that the child she is carrying was allowed to be born, McKenna West has been commended by the state’s leading pro-life agency.
Read →A Texas district court ruled that UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas were obligated to care for Gabriel, a baby due to be born to surrogate The post Texas court orders hospitals to provide lifesaving care to baby at center of surrogacy dispute appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →Wesley J. Smith appeared on In the Market with Janet Parshall on August 13, 2026, to discuss the case of Baby Gabriel, a baby recently born via his surrogate after his parents ordered the surrogate to abort. Smith discussed the specifics of the case as well as the ethical issues with surrogacy. “It treats babies as so many products,” Smith explained. Smith also discussed a recent article from a professional journal calling for wildfires to be treated as a public health emergency. Smith explains why labeling everything a “public health crisis” is a danger to individual freedom. “It’s what I cal
Read →A surrogate mother named McKenna West fled to Texas to protect the baby she was carrying from abortion after the California-based intended parents pressured her to abort due to a treatable heart defect. Texas Governor Ken Paxton intervened and obtained a court order to allow the baby, named Gabriel, to receive treatment after birth, despite the intended parents' refusal to consent to the treatment.
Read →An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a nurse, entered a surrogacy agreement in Alaska, where she lives, with the intended parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists, LLC, a Connecticut-based surrogacy agency. Typically under gestational agreements like the one that West signed with Gilkar and Ahmed, the intended parents, not the surrogate, have the parental rights to make choices relating to the fetus. The fetus West is carrying was diagnosed with hy
Read →Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee has reintroduced a bill that would prevent federal courts from enforcing contract provisions that force surrogate mothers to obtain an abortion. The Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2026 would also ensure that surrogate mothers would still receive comp... The post Bill Targets Forced Abortions Through Surrogacy Contracts appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →America is facing a story straight out of 1 Kings: one baby, two parties wanting the baby, and only one of those parties wanting the baby alive. And while this case is not before King Solomon in the Bible, who wanted to determine which of two fighting women was the true mother, judges in the Alaska Superior Court and the California Second District Court of Appeal are hearing ... Read More The post MODERN KING SOLOMON CASE: Surrogate Mother Fighting to Save Baby from Contractual Parents Pushing Abortion appeared first on Students for Life of America .
Read →What happens when a surrogate refuses to abort the baby she’s carrying? This week, Live Action News released an exclusive interview that shines light on a significant moral dilemma surrounding surrogacy: What happens when motherhood is commercialized, and babies are treated like property that can be discarded through a contract? Surrogate Backstory According to Live […] The post Alaska Surrogate Battles to Keep Baby After Abortion Demand appeared first on Daily Citizen .
Read →While the pro-life conversation is already heated by nature, few topics draw as much division in this sphere as surrogacy. Some believe that the practice commodifies children and rents the […] The post What Does the Bible Say About Surrogacy? appeared first on Focus on the Family .
Read →Guy Benson, a Fox News political analyst, recently announced he and his “husband,” Adam Wise, are bringing home a newborn baby girl to join the boy they acquired through surrogacy in 2023. Benson’s celebratory Instagram post shows him and Wise bottle-feeding the newborn, each of them doing so on a hospital bed. The first child, […] The post Guy Benson: Can We Celebrate His Baby News? appeared first on Daily Citizen .
Read →A Canadian surrogacy case has reached the Ontario Superior Court after the relationship between a same-sex couple and their surrogate broke down. The case highlights […] The post Ontario court battle exposes troubling realities of surrogacy appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →A senior German politician has been forced to resign after entering into a commercial surrogacy arrangement in the United States. In Ireland, he would probably be given a soft interview on The Late Late Show for doing the same thing, because our attitude to surrogacy is probably the most liberal in Europe. The politician, Jens […] The post German politician who quit in surrogacy row would get soft treatment here first appeared on The Iona Institute .
Read →Kyla Simpson’s story has become one of the clearest examples of the legal and ethical failures that can arise in commercial surrogacy. After giving birth to triplet boys for an intended parent in China, Kyla unexpectedly became their full-time caregiver when the intended parent never came to the United States to take custody of the […] The post Why International Commercial Surrogacy is Not Just Another Fertility Service appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →This month, the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services held an interim hearing to examine ethical concerns surrounding surrogacy, including the exploitation of women, international surrogacy arrangements, and gaps in existing law. The hearing was convened in response to an interim charge directing lawmakers to study the impact of foreign interests in Texas’s […] The post Jennifer Lahl’s Remarks on Surrogacy before the Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
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