A gay couple from Essex has made legal history by persuading an American court to allow the pair to become parents of surrogate twin babies. It is the first time a British gay couple has won surrogate rights in a court and is expected to open the door to further...
This week's BioNews reports on news that the British Medical Association (BMA) has prepared a discussion paper for the forthcoming World Medical Association meeting which questions current objections to human cloning. The paper suggests that creating clones of existing people may not be as horrific as we might think. It...
A millionaire gay couple have been condemned for fathering twins using in vitro fertilisation and a surrogate mother from the US. Barrie Drewitt, 30, and Tony Barlow, 35, have spent £200,000 to bypass UK laws and become biological fathers when the surrogate gives birth to a boy and a girl...
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...
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...
Thirteen year old Melissa Stern, better known as Baby M during the bitter legal wrangle that followed her birth to a surrogate mother, is the subject of this feature article. The Baby M case was the first time a judge was asked to rule on a failed surrogacy arrangement...
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