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.
Last week, Britain's most famous surrogate mother gave up her involvement in surrogacy arrangements. Kim Cotton, who shot to fame in 1985 for being the first British woman to publicly act as a surrogate mother for money, has given up the fight to make surrogacy an acceptable practice by resigning...
A tabloid investigation uncovered an illegal surrogacy business last week. Undercover Mirror journalists discovered a couple offering £10,000 in cash to fertile women willing to become surrogate mothers. It is also understood that the couple offer a commission to anyone who introduces them to potential surrogates. These activities are clearly...
Recommendations for changes to the Human Reproductive Technology Act have been made by a Western Australian Parliamentary Select Committee. In a report published 14 May, the committee advised that surrogacy should only be permitted where the commissioning couple's genetic material is used, or where the embryos are created from donated...
Embryologists at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine have reported a new method of producing transgenic animals. Dubbed 'Honolulu transgenesis', the technique is a modification of a method originally developed by Ryuzo Yanagimachi for injecting sperm into eggs. Called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, this microinjection technique is fast becoming a...
A woman left unable to bear children because of a medical blunder has won a landmark damages claim to pay for a surrogate birth. Patricia Briody, 45, spent the last ten years battling with both the medical and legal establishments through a series of court hearings - even, at one stage...
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