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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 […]
Read →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.
Read →The Miracle Surrogacy agency demonstrates how the practice commodifies children by offering a discount for initiating two surrogacy ‘journeys’ at the same time.
Read →California’s surrogacy laws let almost anyone with enough money commission a child. No background check.
Read →The surrogacy and IVF industries in the U.S. have become lucrative businesses in the global marketplace, with surrogacy expected to experience explosive growth.
Read →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.
Read →From their inception, the surrogacy and IVF industries have turned children and women into transactional commodities to satisfy the desires of paying adults.
Read →Commercial surrogacy is illegal in the Netherlands, but Rob Jetten's leftist political party D66 claims that no laws have been broken.
Read →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 .
Read →Women in China are increasingly hiring surrogates overseas, which experts say is an attempt to avoid the so-called 'motherhood penalty.'
Read →"With ordinary pregnancies, everyone understands that the baby is going to seek out its mother... what is familiar." But with surrogacy, this is "erased."
Read →Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang allegedly abused surrogate-born children while running an unlicensed California surrogacy agency from their home.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.”
Read →An IVF mom now against traditional IVF, surrogacy & the corruption within Big Fertility.
Read →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."
Read →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
Read →A California couple who ran a surrogacy company are accused of subjecting children living in their home to repeated physical abuse.
Read →A California couple who assembled a household of surrogate-born children was arrested Tuesday after prosecutors said nannies beat children as young as 2 months old inside what they called a “house of horrors,” while the parents watched on camera. Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were taken into custody at their Arcadia mansion after […] The post Couple With 14 Surrogate Children Arrested After Horrific Child Abuse appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Read →Cops have arrested a Chinese couple accused of farming 21 children at their castle-like California mansion. Officers swooped on the Arcadia address October 6 and detained Guojun Xuan, 65, and his partner Silvia Zhang, 38, on multiple charges.
Read →A California couple who had at least 21 children through surrogacy have been charged with child abuse after authorities alleged that children living in their mansion were subjected to repeated beatings and harsh punishment. Guojun Xuan, 66 and Silvia Zhang, 39, are accused of recruiting surrogate mothers under false pretences before raising the children in […]
Read →Altruistic surrogacy can avoid the extremes found in its commercial form, such as material exploitation and inhumane contract terms. However, the fundamental problem of surrogacy remains: a child is conceived in the interest of others; the biological mother is merely a means to an end.
Read →A newborn baby born via surrogate went viral on social media for being frustrated trying to root and latch. Unfortunately,...
Read →In the Netherlands recently, a severely disabled child just under 2 years old was euthanized . Euthanasia is legal in that country: Originally, when the law was first passed in 2002, you had to be able to give consent to be euthanized, but since 2024 even those who cannot give co
Read →Approximately 30,000 people gathered for the fifth National March for Life in Bratislava on September 20, calling for an end to abortion and surrogacy.
Read →Pope Leo XIV's apostolic journey to France from September 25 to 28, 2026, focused on defending the dignity of every human life, challenging French lawmakers on assisted dying, abortion, and surrogacy, and emphasizing that no human life is disposable. During his visit, he engaged with the sick and disabled in Lourdes, delivered a speech at UNESCO warning about the impact of AI on human dignity, and celebrated a Mass in Paris attended by over 800,000 people, including altar servers with Down syndrome, highlighting his global voice for the vulnerable. The pope's visit sparked renewed debate over France's assisted-dying legislation, with his strong defense of life receiving widespread attention, including from President Emmanuel Macron, who attended Mass with him despite political opposition; Pope Leo also condemned euthanasia and abortion as threats to human dignity and called for medicine to reject programmed death, reinforcing his role as a prominent advocate for the disabled, elderly, unborn, and vulnerable in society.
Read →The emotional and physical experience of natural childbirth with the commercial surrogacy process, highlighting the emotional distance surrogates must maintain from the children they bear and the complex identity issues surrogacy creates for the child. It also discusses the lack of federal regulation, the invasive nature of surrogacy contracts, and presents cases illustrating the legal and ethical challenges faced by surrogates and children in commercial surrogacy arrangements.
Read →The United Kingdom will expand bereavement leave starting in April 2027 to include two weeks of unpaid leave for employees and their partners who suffer a miscarriage, undergo an abortion before 24 weeks, or lose an embryo during IVF transfer, including surrogacy cases. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and other critics argue that equating abortion with miscarriage in bereavement leave policy is an insult and raises questions about the recognition of unborn human life and the normalization of abortion and surrogacy practices.
Read →During his September 25-27 visit to France, Pope Leo XIV strongly defended human life, condemning abortion, surrogacy, and assisted dying, and urging protection for the vulnerable despite the new assisted-dying law that took effect in August. His remarks, including a call that 'what is legal is not necessarily moral,' were seen by pro-life advocates and the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation as encouragement to continue opposing the law and promoting the dignity of the sick, elderly, and disabled.
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