The practice of bearing a child for another person or couple. In gestational (also known as 'full' or 'host') surrogacy, the surrogate carries an embryo conceived through IVF. In traditional (also known as 'partial' or 'straight') surrogacy, the surrogate's own egg is fertilised with the intended father's sperm.
Dr Sylvie Armstrong reviews an episode of the Surrogacy Daddy podcast exploring the emotional and ethical complexities of surrogacy as well as wider systemic inequalities affecting maternal health and reproductive autonomy, following a surrogate's life-threatening health complications
Surrogacy is not prohibited in Argentina, but there are no specific laws regulating it. Dr Paula Siverino Bavio explains how judges are dealing with complicated cases...
A UK judge has granted a parental order after illegal commercial surrogacy in China, despite 'strongly deprecating' the intended parents' choices...
The UK Government has announced plans to give employees in Great Britain a legal right to bereavement leave following pregnancy loss, including miscarriage and unsuccessful IVF embryo transfers...
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the intended parents of a seriously ill newborn can take the child back to California...
Fertility awareness should go beyond age and biology to reflect the diverse ways people experience reproductive uncertainty throughout their lives, writes Dr Eva De Clercq...
Dolly the sheep became a global scientific celebrity when she was revealed in 1997. This documentary revisits her cloning, exploring both the science behind her creation and the ethical questions that captured the public imagination…
New evidence on the risks of gestational surrogacy should strengthen the case for better safeguards, writes Dr Carole Gilling-Smith...
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