Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian jurisdiction except for the Northern Territory. The current application of criminal law is based upon this 1980s policy which has never been subject to public debate. This artic...

• Center for Surrogate Parenting (CSP) is the first center in the world to help a same-sex couple in 1989. Sensible Surrogacy also supports same-sex couples. They believe that regardless of the gender of your partner, everyone who wants to be a parent should be able to have a child. • In general, religious and conservative groups tend to be opposed to surrogacy and consider it to be “anti-life....

STUDY QUESTION What impact does surrogacy have on the surrogates' own children? SUMMARY ANSWER The children of surrogate mothers do not experience any negative consequences as a result of their mother's decision to be a surrogate, irrespective of whether or not the surrogate uses her own egg. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE AND DURATION Participants were recruited as part of a study of the long-term eff...

In 1997, Margaret Brazier was asked by the then Government to chair a review of the laws regulating surrogacy. The subsequent Brazier Report made a number of recommendations, including the need for greater regulation and the tightening of 'expenses' payments. Fifteen years on, the limitations in the legal regulation of surrogacy have become increasingly clear. Yet, none of Brazier's recommendat...

In the context of her observations about science and race, Sandra Harding once observed that “the Baby M case could be the forerunner of the use of poor and third world women’s wombs to produce children for economically advantaged European American couples” (1986, 2003). Harding’s predictions are practically a reality. Commercial gestational surrogacy is now a transnational phenomenon. Can West...

Surrogacy is not regulated by a single legal instrument only, nor is confirmation of a surrogacy agreement by the High Court an unqualified green light for the surrogacy process to proceed. In the context of the HIV status of the commissioning father, whose gametes are to be used for the conception of the child in pursuance of a surrogacy agreement, the intended in vitro fertilisation of the su...

It has been a common claim that surrogacy is morally problematic since it involves harm to the child or the surrogate-the harm argument. Due to a growing body of empirical research, the harm argument has seen a decrease in popularity, as there seems to be little evidence of harmful consequences of surrogacy. In this article, two revised versions of the harm argument are developed. It is argued ...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:414:"Surrogacy is one of the most popular ART methods which is used when a woman is not able to breed a fetus through pregnancy in her own uterus. Gestational surrogacy is approved by law and religion in Iran. Infertile couple's decisions between possible treatments are influenced by their knowledge and attitudes. The aim of this study is to compare knowledge and attitu...

The birth of a child after uterus transplant from a living donor in Sweden in October, 2013 has spurred reproductive and transplant physicians in Europe and North America to investigate whether uterus transplants, from living or cadaveric donors, will be a safe and effective therapy for women with uterine insufficiency. While progress with uterus transplant depends on medical factors, there are...