International surrogacy: new HFEA guidance and the dangers of oversimplifying a complex picture
The pandemic has thrown a spotlight on international surrogacy...
Natalie Gamble
BioNews Articles by Natalie Gamble
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Why the UK Government should modernise the law on embryo and gamete storage
The Government has launched a public consultation (open until 5 May 2020) on whether the UK's maximum storage periods for eggs, sperm and embryos should be reviewed...
Do proposals to reform UK surrogacy law go far enough?
The Law Commission's provisional proposals for surrogacy law reform seek a delicate balance, but do they go far enough? ...
Single parent surrogacy: The Government must heed Parliament's warning
The Government is in the process of changing the law to allow single parents with a child through surrogacy to apply for a parental order...
Surrogacy law reform for single people brings children out of legal limbo
In May 2016, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, declared that certain provisions of UK surrogacy law were incompatible with a father and child’s human rights...
What The Handmaid's Tale has taught me about surrogacy
As a supporter of surrogacy, I expected the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale to be uncomfortable viewing. Margaret Atwood's chilling dystopian novel is well known for being the ultimate warning against surrogacy...
Single parent surrogacy — what the High Court ruling really means
The President of the High Court Family Division declared last week that UK surrogacy law was incompatible with the human rights of a single father and his child...
Maternity leave for surrogacy will fail international surrogacy parents unless we act now
Many future parents of children born via surrogacy risk never being able to enjoy the new rights to leave and pay promised in the Children and Families Act...
The 'Brilliant Beginnings' of surrogacy reform in the UK
The landscape for opportunities to bring up a family through surrogacy and egg donation in the UK has changed - though not as fast as it has internationally. We live in a globalised world in which commercial surrogacy is a reality...
The HFEA gets into gear on surrogacy
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) voted on 20 March 2013 to update the guidance it gives to UK fertility clinics on surrogacy. It is a welcome decision that will mean better support for the growing numbers of families created through surrogacy in the UK....