Ensuring respect for children's human rights in donor conception and surrogacy
Professor Marilyn Crawshaw, Dr Astrid Indekeu and Hannah Markham KC outline work to centre children's human rights in surrogacy and gamete donation...
Dr Marilyn Crawshaw
Honorary Fellow at the University of York
Marilyn Crawshaw is an honorary fellow at the University of York and chair of the Project Group on Assisted Reproduction.
BioNews Articles by Dr Marilyn Crawshaw
Obituary: Professor Sonia Allan
'What a woman': Professor Sonia Allen's work in psychology, health and law, centred people born through donor conception and surrogacy. She is remembered by her friend and peer, Dr Marilyn Crawshaw...
Donor conception is for life – Who cares? Who pays? Whose rights matter?
As more evidence emerges of donor conception's complex and changeable lifespan impact for all those affected, responsibility for providing much needed professional support is diminishing…
Why egg donors need to be brought out of the shadows in surrogacy arrangements
Dr Marilyn Crawshaw, chair of PROGAR – a UK group of child and family welfare organisations and individuals focused on the lifespan aspects of donor conception and/or surrogacy – and Nina Barnsley, director of the Donor Conception Network discuss the importance of egg donors in surrogacy arrangements...
How many is too many in surrogacy? Who is thinking about the children?
A recent report of a millionaire couple who had 20 babies through surrogacy makes for disturbing reading. It highlights what can happen in the absence of universally agreed, child-focused laws to regulate the growing world of surrogacy...
Donor-conceived people do benefit from being told about their conception
Professor Guido Pennings' provocatively entitled BioNews commentary 'Donor children do not benefit from being told about their conception' purports to highlight the shortcomings of existing research supporting a pro-disclosure agenda and castigates couns
Retrospective removal of donor anonymity: respectful, fair, grateful and moral? An evidence-based argument
The Government of Victoria should be applauded for confronting a dilemma that so many others have avoided...
Reform of UK surrogacy laws: the need for evidence
Given the complexity of surrogacy practice, we have become concerned that many 'reform' arguments are based on alleged matters of fact: a dangerous state of affairs...
Breaches of the HFEA's donor 'ten family' limit - who should be told what?
Freedom of Information requests and email correspondence reveal the HFEA's singular lack of coherence as regards breaches of its family-limit policy...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
What are the best interests of the child in international surrogacy?
As the surrogacy industry grows, so too do calls from parts of the consumer lobby, fertility industry and others for a loosening of international and domestic restraints on surrogacy arrangements...