Category: Surrogacy Law

Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, UK

UK – “Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children?”

Intended Parents

Source:  HuffPost UK

A current family law case in the US has caught the media’s attention. It’s one which is difficult, emotional and demands a solution. A gay married couple is suing the US government after the birth of their twins. One twin was conceived with the sperm of one father (a US citizen) and the other was conceived with the sperm of the other father (an Israeli citizen). The birth of the twins took place in Canada (where the fathers were married), and both fathers were listed on each both certificate.

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intended parents, Ireland, Law, Surrogacy Law

Hopes and dreams for the new law on assisted human reproduction in Ireland

Intended Parents

Source: Bio News

The Minister for Health in Ireland on the 3 October 2017 disclosed a decision by Government to approve the drafting of a bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated research. Three days later a general scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017 was published. This month, the bill went to Ireland’s Oireachtas health committee for scrutiny (see BioNews 934), after which it will go back to the Irish government for a final bill to be drafted. This is very exciting as it will be the first legislation in Ireland on assisted reproduction: setting up a legislative and regulatory structure under which the practice of AHR may operate.

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Law, South Africa, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, Surrogate Mother

South Africa – Surrogacy – too much to bear?

Intended Parents

Source: Lexology

Surrogacy – a word recently dragged kicking and screaming into the limelight by the pop-couple Kardashian-West. What caused the outcry? Kim’s decision: the mother of two would not bear their third child herself. Worldwide the topic of surrogacy sparks debate. Leaving ethics aside for a moment, should the legal aspects of surrogacy be influenced by social, political or geographical factors?

Surrogacy is not a concept or practice foreign to South Africa. The Children’s Act of 2005 prescribes that all surrogacy arrangements are to be governed by a “surrogacy motherhood agreement” (SMA), the validity of which must be confirmed by a court. A recent decision handed down by the Johannesburg High Court highlighted a few requirements for such confirmation. The judgment arguably opens the door to social, political and or geographical discrimination.

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Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, Surrogate Mother, UK

UK – High Court considers costs in surrogacy dispute

Intended Parents

Source: Stowe

The circumstances surrounding an application for costs in a surrogacy dispute must be considered, a Family Court Judge has ruled.

The surrogacy arrangement had been made by a former same sex couple. The resulting child, a daughter, was born in the United States and now lives in New York with her biological father, ‘Y’.

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Gay Parenting, Same Sex, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law

Gay couple’s twin babies battle immigration: One’s a US citizen, other isn’t

Intended Parents

Source: MyNewsLA

This story has it all – a same-sex couple, a court battle over immigration, baby twins and even a tie to the federal government shutdown at the start of the week.

Lawyers for a Los Angeles-based same-sex couple have filed suit against the federal government, alleging that the U.S. State Department is discriminating against them by denying birthright citizenship to one of their twin sons.

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Gay Parenting, Same Sex, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law

Israeli Lawmaker Slams Surrogacy for Same-sex Couples: ‘We Won’t Be a World Leader in Deviancy’

Intended Parents

Source: Haaretz

MKs call religious lawmaker a homophobe during heated debate in Knesset committee over proposals to allow single women and same-sex parents to contract local surrogacy services

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Ireland, Law, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law

New Assisted Reproduction Bill in Ireland gathers pace

Intended Parents

Source: BioNews

Details of Ireland’s proposed Assisted Human Reproduction Bill were revealed in a meeting of the Oireachtas Health Committee.

Ireland currently has no legislation governing assisted reproduction. The bill aims to provide comprehensive regulation across all aspects of assisted reproduction and establish an Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority to make ongoing decisions, explained the Department of Health’s chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan.

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Gay Parenting, Law, Singapore, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law

Singapore sticks with old-fashioned parenting model

Intended Parents

Source: BioEdge

A gay couple has created a conundrum for the Singaporean government by attempting to adopt a child born of an American surrogate mother. The two unnamed men, both Chinese, aged 45 with high salaries, paid a California woman US$200,000 to provide an egg and to gestate a baby, who was born in 2013.

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Law, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, Surrogate Mother, UK

UK – Surrogate mother and MP: UK surrogacy law ‘outdated and inadequate’

Intended Parents

Source: BBC

Sarah Jones – a parent, childminder, four-time surrogate and chair of Surrogate UK – said UK surrogacy law is “unacceptable”

A woman who has been a surrogate mother four times says “urgent changes” are needed to surrogacy law.

Sarah Jones from Epworth, Lincolnshire, backed by MP for Brigg and Goole Andrew Percy, said current laws, set up in the 1980s, are “outdated and inadequate”.

Surrogacy is when a woman becomes pregnant with the intention of giving the child to its parents after birth.

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Law, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, Surrogate Mother

Surrogate-born baby’s very life at center of legal fight

Intended Parents

Source: wfaa.com

A baby boy born Thursday morning at Medical City Dallas is at the center of a custody dispute between the biological parents, the surrogate who carried the child, and now Dallas County and the state of Texas.

Attorneys for the surrogate, a woman from Collin County who’s successfully served as a surrogate twice before, said she agreed to carry the child for a couple from out of state. But at 16 weeks of pregnancy, doctors discovered the baby had a heart problem.

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Law, Singapore, Surrogacy, Surrogacy Law, Surrogate Mother

Singapore – Where to go, what do to? Family in Singapore’s gay surrogacy adoption case in limbo

Intended Parents

Source: South China Morning Post

Out of the three bedrooms in Noel’s home, two have been dedicated to the four-year-old — one for sleeping, the other for toys. There are a lot of toys, mostly gifts from family and friends. Noel is very much the apple of his parents’ eyes, and the extended family’s too. Both sides of the family gather every few weeks in Noel’s home, humouring him with endless games of hide and seek in the 1,450 sq ft apartment.

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