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.
With young people increasingly using AI for health and fertility research, SurrogacyUK assessed AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot to understand their accuracy, empathy, and ethical implications in supporting surrogacy journeys...
A recent surrogacy case in Peru had a good outcome for one family, but does not provide wider certainty for families, surrogates or clinicians, writes Dr Paula Siverino Bavio...
A boy named Hugo has become the first child in the UK to be born following a womb transplant from a dead donor...
Spain is now making non-genetic parents of surrogate-born children apply for adoption, explains Dr Marcin Śmietana...
The first in a series of discussions on human reproduction from the Hastings Centre for Bioethics asks today's most pressing questions about embryo selection…
The High Court has ruled that because a man has a gender recognition certificate, he cannot be recognised as legal parent. Natalie Gamble explains why this judgment has profound implications for transgender parents, fertility clinics and the law more broadly...
Following publication of the latest report from the SurrogacyUK Working Group on Surrogacy Law Reform, report authors and contributors Professor Kirsty Horsey, Natalie Smith, Sarah Norcross, Sarah Jones and Dr Bianca Jackson reflect on ten years of surrogacy developments...
Sir James Munby, former President of the High Court Family Division, has died aged 77...
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