August 4, 2014 0 comments
Surrogacy is back in the news, with the case of the Australian couple refusing to take a boy who was born with Down’s syndrome making headlines across the world. The case has led to calls for changes in the law on surrogacy. But just what are our surrogacy laws? Before I begin, just a quick…
August 4, 2014 0 comments
An advocacy group in Australia fears the country will ban international surrogacy following a case involving a child with Down’s syndrome in Thailand. After paying a Thai woman $15,000 to have their children, an Australian couple refused to take the boy home due to his condition. It is currently illegal to pay for a surrogate…
July 3, 2014 0 comments
A judge has been unable to determine the marital status of a surrogate mother from the Republic of Georgia. In Re D (A Child), there was not enough evidence for Mr Justice Moylan to decide if the surrogate mother was married, divorced, or single at the time of treatment. The question arose when parents looking…
June 3, 2014 1 comment
A Canadian MP is attempting to make payments to surrogate mothers legal. The bill which would remove the current prohibition was introduced by Independent MP Dean Del Mastro. Canadian law, more specifically the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, says that a commercial incentive for surrogacy is “for health and ethical reasons, a crime”. Del Mastro claims…
May 20, 2014 1 comment
The High Court recently heard two remarkably similar international surrogacy cases. In CC v DD, a married couple living in France were seeking a ‘parental order’ for a child born in the US, and in Re G and M, a same sex couple from France were seeking the same order for a set of twins…
February 12, 2014 0 comments
While some people sail through their lives entirely untroubled by a lack of offspring, for others it is a source of pain. Whether they left it too late in their lives or cannot have children for medical reasons, the anguish can be very real. Same sex couples may also have a very real desire to…
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