PET's Director Sarah Norcross was quoted in an article about surrogacy in the Metro newspaper.
In an article prompted by the growing number of US celebrities having children through surrogacy, Norcross provided important context about how things stand in the UK:
'There is no central agency or organisation responsible for monitoring surrogacy in the UK, and so nobody knows how many surrogacy arrangements take place each year, or even how many children are born via surrogacy,' she said.
'[UK] law, as it stands, no longer reflects the realities of surrogacy, nor does it recognise the appropriate people as parents,' she added. 'Under present arrangements, there is a complex process for transferring legal parenthood from surrogates to IPs [intended parents] after birth. ‘This can take months, or even years.'
