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 .
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”?
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.
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 .
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.
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 .
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
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.
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
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
WASHINGTON, D.C. — June 4, 2026 — At the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC), we have long argued that surrogacy law in the United States contains serious gaps that leave women and children vulnerable to exploitation and harm. Today, those concerns are finally receiving attention at the federal level. Rep. Scott Perry has introduced two […] The post Closing the Surrogacy Loopholes No One Should Have Left Open: Protecting Children in the Surrogacy Era appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
This is the worst “I told you so” ever. In the committee hearing for Washington State’s Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) which will legalize commercial surrogacy, award parental rights to any adult(s) who can acquire a child through reproductive technologies, and make parenthood gender neutral, the bill’s sponsor stated what traditional marriage supporters have known all along: “redefining marriage redefines parenthood.” Around minute 54 Senator Pedersen says, Then 6-7 years ago now, we anticipated a lot of what’s in UPA 2017 and made most of our act gender neutral. We were the first of a number of
As personhood advocates, shouldn’t we rejoice that more precious children have been born into the world? After all, every child is a gift from God. While this popular practice allows couples to fulfill their own desires for children, surrogacy must nonetheless be examined in light of its effects on the children born via surrogacy as well as on the surrogates themselves. Source
My name is Jessica Kern. I am a product of a traditional surrogacy. This is where a surrogate is hired to both donate her egg and carry the child to term… As a product of surrogacy I can tell you firsthand what we children of donor conception go through. Children of surrogacy, just like children of a traditional adoption, deal with all the traumas that go along with adoption. We want to know where we come from. We want to know who our biological mothers are. We want to know who gave birth to us and what they are like. We are curious about their family and other siblings we may have. I spent th
My name is Brian and I am the son of a traditional surrogate, a biological father, and an adoptive mother. I think all of you here need to know how I feel about surrogacy. I have read a certain popular surrogacy board since I was 16 and I am almost 18 now. I was going to wait until I was 18 to open my mouth but I just can’t stand reading all of this stuff anymore. It was something in one TS’s post that really set me off. And it was not just her, it’s everybody attitude. “if you go into this feeling that this is “your” baby then you should not be a TS. This baby is NOT yours. It is your egg don
Leading fertility organizations including ASPIRE, ESHRE, ASRM, and IFFS have proposed global consensus guidelines on surrogacy at the ASPIRE Congress 2026, aiming to establish minimum standards for surrogacy practices worldwide. These guidelines have been criticized for ignoring the United Nations' call for the abolition of surrogacy due to exploitation risks, and for being developed without the input of surrogate mothers or independent human rights experts, raising concerns that they serve to preserve rather than dismantle the surrogacy industry.
Coauthored with Stop Surrogacy Now UK The recent police raid on the home of Barrie Drewitt-Barlow in the UK—linked in reporting to a human trafficking investigation—has reignited scrutiny over the surrogacy industry and the legal structures surrounding it. According to reporting, Essex Police carried out coordinated searches as part of an investigation into allegations including […] The post The Dark Side of Surrogacy: Loopholes, Predators, Fraud, & Systemic Failure appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
How have feminism, transgenderism, and the Sexual Revolution propelled the recent increase in single men applying to raise children via surrogacy? Holly Baines explores the issue Since single people were granted the same surrogacy rights as couples in 2019, the number of single men pursuing parenthood through surrogacy is steadily increasing. Between 2019 and 2025, ... The post Single-parent surrogacy: the dark conclusion of the Sexual Revolution appeared first on Christian Concern .
In 1984, a Virginia physician named H. Barry Jacobs announced a plan to broker human kidneys on the open market. Congress responded within months. The National Organ Transplant Act... The post Surrogacy Is Already Illegal appeared first on First Things .
