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22/01/2024

https://www.kget.com/news/ap-pope-calls-for-universal-ban-on-surrogacy-in-global-roundup-of-threats-to-peace-and-human-dignity/

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual spee…

22/01/2024

https://www.courthousenews.com/after-fighting-abortion-demand-surrogate-mom-demands-custody/

16/01/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2DmRUxipog

It is so hard for me to upload this video.. I am scared. But I hope that me sharing my story can help someone else. I am working on dealing with this and hon...

13/12/2023

https://cbc-network.org/2023/06/when-surrogacy-goes-bad-there-are-never-any-winners/

A surrogate mother's cancer diagnosis required her to deliver the baby early. The intended parents refused medical care for the baby

13/12/2023

My 'womb for hire' nightmare:

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13/12/2023

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/felt-sold-child-women-regret-surrogates/story?id=25042805

Some women regret being surrogates after giving birth.

13/12/2023

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/02/74041/

Surrogacy arrangements are not in the best interests of children. When thinking about whether to legalize surrogacy, policy makers should consider the epigenetic effects of pregnancy, the loss to the children arising from separation from their birth mothers, and the special challenges associated wit

09/12/2023

Death of a Surrogate Causes Chaos | New Amsterdam |

When a surrogate suffers tragic complications during childbirth, the father of the baby learns that his New Jersey surrogacy contract is invalid in the state...

09/12/2023

American Surrogate Death: NOT the First

No longer do surrogates conceive children in a do-it-yourself manner. Today's surrogates incubate children unrelated to them.

09/12/2023

All parties to a surrogacy arrangement need to understand that death is an inherent risk of surrogacy. Most importantly, the surrogate needs to understand, and be willing to accept the risk, that she might die as a result of carrying someone else’s baby. By doing this favor for someone else, she is putting her own life at risk, and needs to consider the potential consequences to her own family.

Learn about how a surrogacy arrangement can take into account risks associated with the journey.

08/12/2023

https://surrogacy-lawyer.com/surrogacy-law/the-surrogacy-group-owner-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court/

There is an update on a story we’ve been following involving The Surrogacy Group, an surrogacy agency based in Florida and Maryland. In a heart-breaking […]

08/12/2023

https://karenpersis.com/surrogate-breaches-surrogacy-agreement-refuses-to-terminate-pregnancy/

It is critical that the intended parents and surrogate have a complete understanding of the Surrogacy Agreement in order to avoid conflict during the pregnancy and after the birth of the child!

08/12/2023

https://www.mysurrogacyjourney.com/blog/california-dreamin-of-regulating-surrogacy-agencies/

Lilly Frost and her international surrogacy scheme Lilly Frost, taken from abc news YouTube On 10 July 2022, the LA Times broke the story of Lilly Frost and her international surrogacy scheme. Unlike other surrogacy agencies, Surrogacy Beyond Borders offered IPs guaranteed parenthood for a flat fee,...

06/12/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/18/global-surrogacy-agency-accused-of-putting-women-at-risk-with-unethical-medical-procedures

Overseas branches of UK-registered firm also let clients pick their baby’s s*x, investigation finds

06/12/2023

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/owner-surrogacy-group-sentenced-maryland-32-months-federal-prison-defrauding-clients-fees

U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Gregory Ray Blosser, age 39, of Tampa, Florida, to 32 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a wire fraud charge in connection with a scheme to defraud clients of The Surrogacy Group (TSG), which he owned an...

06/12/2023

Evil on Another Level': Couples Claim
Surrogacy Agency Took Thousands

Two couples claim that a San Diego-based surrogacy company took their money and promised a baby – but didn’t deliver. The company is now being investigated by the FBI.

24/09/2023

Commodifying human life, risking health and safety

At the recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, The Heritage Foundation and the Center for Family and Human Rights drew attention to surrogacy and the dangers it poses to women at an event that highlighted several instances of women who had been trafficked, rendered infertile, or even died as a result of surrogacy. Michelle Reaves was one such surrogate mother from California. She lost her life last year while delivering a baby for someone else, leaving her own son and daughter motherless and her husband a widower.

By its very nature, surrogacy commodifies both a woman’s body as well as that of the child. The women targeted to become a surrogate by the multi-billion-dollar fertility industry are often wooed by the opportunity to make tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for renting their body. In some cases, a surrogate arrangement is altruistic—perhaps the surrogate mother may want to help a friend or family member who desperately wants a baby, and she does not profit financially from the exchange. Nevertheless, regardless of the circumstances or motivation, in a surrogacy arrangement a woman’s body is used as a conduit for a transaction that provides a baby for someone else—and the risks for both her, and the baby, are significant.

Whether a surrogate mother is compensated or not, serious concerns involving health risks to mothers and babies remain, and the rights of children must not be ignored.

Children who are born as the result of a surrogacy arrangement are more likely to have low birth weights and are at an increased risk for stillbirth. When a woman carries a child conceived from an egg that is not her own—a traditional gestational surrogate arrangement—she is at a three-fold risk of developing hypertension and pre-eclampsia. Egg donors have spoken up about experiencing conditions such as loss of fertility, blood clots, kidney disease, premature menopause, and cancer, and the lack of data and studies on both short and long term health outcomes for egg donors makes true informed consent unattainable. While scientists do not fully understand the scope of these health considerations, it is clear that for both short and long-term outcomes, surrogacy is a frontier of unknowns; children, egg donors, and surrogate mothers may pay a physical or psychological price nobody yet fully knows or understands.

24/09/2023

In many cases, surrogacy intentionally creates a situation in which a child will be denied his or her biological parent-child relationship. In every circumstance, the children of surrogacy arrangements are deliberately separated from the only mother they have ever known from the moment they are born.
May 5, 2021

24/09/2023

Surrogacy is fraught with ethical and moral considerations. It is a process that can exploit vulnerable women. It carries significant health and psychological risks.

17/05/2023

The Dark Side of the Surrogacy Industry
“Women are not property to be rented for the purpose of bearing children and kids are not menu items to be ordered at a person’s whim. These are real people who face real consequences, and they are victims of an unethical system.”

REAGAN ESCUDÉ SCOTT
https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2022/04/the-dark-side-of-the-surrogacy-industry/

17/05/2023

A woman acting as a surrogate in the UK died shortly after giving birth on New Year's Eve, it has emerged. Natasha Caltabiano, who was 29 and a mother of two, suffered a ruptured aorta and died from a heart attack 90 minutes after the child was born, at St Michael's Hospital, Bristol.
https://www.progress.org.uk/surrogate-dies-in-childbirth/

14/04/2023

In a hotel in Kiev, Ukraine, dozens of surrogate babies wait to be picked up by their foreign biological parents on June 10, 2020.
Andreas Stein / picture alliance / Getty Images

14/04/2023

In a letter in June to Cuomo, Steinem and others said:

Our opposition to this bill emerges from our conviction that the legalization of commercial surrogacy contracts in New York state will undermine women’s control over their bodies, thwart women’s reproductive rights, render women vulnerable to reproductive trafficking and exploitation, and further subordinate and harm women, especially those who are economically disadvantaged, in our state.

14/04/2023

Ed Mechmann, director of public policy for the Archdiocese of New York, and himself a former assistant district attorney, notes:

Those dangers are self-evident from the way that commercial surrogacy works. There are standard contracts for surrogacy, easily available on the internet. A contract is agreed upon between “intended parents” and the “gestational carrier.” That terminology alone tells you enough about the degradation of women that is inherent in this practice. The standard surrogacy contracts impose all sorts of obligations on the “carrier,” and there is a severe penalty if she doesn’t comply — if she violates any provision, she forfeits any payment under the agreement and has to reimburse the “parents” for any of their expenses. This could entail tens of thousands of dollars in penalties and lost income. How is it “progressive” to treat women this way?

14/04/2023

Casualties of Surrogacy
We have no business building a multi-billion-dollar fertility industry at the risk of the health and well-being of women and children. A woman’s body is not designed to carry another woman’s baby. This essay is adapted from remarks delivered at the Heritage Foundation.
The media and Hollywood celebrities, like Kim Kardashian and Jimmy Fallon, present surrogacy as a wonderful and beautiful thing. Even Ben Shapiro said “surrogacy can be useful and wonderful in some cases” when he spoke at this year’s March for Life. But I’m happy to discuss what you won’t hear about in the media: the health risks to women, and to the children to whom they give birth, of commercial contracted pregnancies.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/05/52239/

14/04/2023

Surrogate mother dies in California
Surrogacy could be more dangerous than people think

https://bioedge.org/beginning-of-life-issues/surrogate-mother-dies-in-california/

27/03/2023

Undeniably, surrogacy is an unethical, exploitative industry that causes harm to everyone involved except for the intended parents. Some might argue that women sometimes have to give their children up for adoption, which is always better than a baby being aborted or stuck in an abusive home or foster system. However, surrogacy is not the same as a family rescuing children from mothers grappling with an unplanned pregnancy who might otherwise choose abortion or from abusive homes or drug-ridden environments. Surrogacy intentionally creates a child for the purpose of separating him from his or her biological mother and father (and the woman who carried him or her in her womb) to provide satisfaction and fulfillment to the desires of two strangers who are willing to pay to be parents.

27/03/2023

“Women are not property to be rented for the purpose of bearing children and kids are not menu items to be ordered at a person’s whim. These are real people who face real consequences, and they are victims of an unethical system.”

REAGAN ESCUDÉ SCOTT

05/12/2022

When Surrogacy Goes Very, Very Wrong

My first response when hearing this CNN story was "Oh, what an incredibly sad and complicated mess." I’ve embedded a seven minute video, but the crib note version is this. A couple hired a surrogate

12/10/2022

Surrogacy pregnancy should be considered a high-risk emotional experience because many surrogate mothers may face negative experiences. Therefore, it is recommended that surrogates should receive professional counseling prior to, during, and after the following pregnancy.

Background: Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition ...