The surrogacy industry needs international regulation to stop the exploitation of women’s bodies.
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The number of UK babies being born to surrogate mothers has risen by 255% in the past six years.
There are sound ethical reasons behind Canada’s decision to ban payment to surrogate mothers and sperm and egg donors in 2004. A new push to remove the restrictions ignores the risks.
Surrogate mothers in developing countries are being shuffled across borders to evade a crackdown on the industry. This emerging gray market puts women at risk.
Health Canada is drafting important regulations for assisted reproductive technologies. Initial documents treat egg donors and surrogates as little more than spare parts and walking wombs.
Surrogacy is fraught with uncertainties. Proposed regulation, inspired by the way the caring professions are regulated, would protect the surrogate and provide certainty about legal parentage.
As the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society urges the government to consider “compensation” for surrogacy, we need to talk about the implications of this rhetoric for women.
South Africa lacks a clear definition of disability – and its limited view of who should be regarded as having a disability in the labour market is at odds with international practice.
The reasons for banning compensated surrogacy in developing countries don’t apply in Australia.
Medical tourism for assisted reproductive technologies raises a host of legal and ethical questions.
There’s no evidence to say legalising commercial surrogacy here would stop people from going overseas where it’s probably cheaper and there may be less regulation.
People who require the services of a surrogate to be able to have a child are going offshore because the only surrogacy permitted in Australia is altruistic surrogacy.
The current debate about commercial surrogacy has focused on the competing needs of couples or individuals desperate to have children, and the exploitation of vulnerable women in low-income countries…
The practice of reproductive surrogacy is in the news in Australia because of the story of a Thai child, Gammy, a twin who was apparently abandoned by the buyers because he was sick. They took his healthy…
Once in a while an unexpected event shines a revealing light on aspects of international relations we generally neglect or would rather not think about. The surrogacy saga that has seemingly transfixed…
The story of baby Gammy and his “surrogate” mother has captured the world’s attention, highlighting just how complex and fraught commercial surrogacy arrangements can be. It also shows Australia is right…
For singles and couples who can’t naturally conceive and carry a baby to term, surrogacy is sometimes considered an option to have a child. Current laws across Australia permit “altruistic” surrogacy which…
Chief Federal Court Magistrate John Pascoe’s call for amending Australian state legislation to allow commercial surrogacy, subject to statutory controls, has much to commend it. The aim of the legislation…
Assisted reproductive technology has grown significantly in Australia as in other countries and hundreds of thousands of children have now been born because of it around the world. Most of us know people…
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Practical Theology & Spiritual Care, Emory University
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Academic; Consultant (Health Law), University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Programme Director, Centre for Labour Law; Lecturer in Mercantile Law, University of the Free State
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Lecturer in Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sexual Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Labour Law, North-West University
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Director Bachelor Social Work Program, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
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