Surrogacy is the method where a woman (a surrogate) carries a child for another person(s) who are the commissioning or intending parents due to a prior arrangement that the child would be handed over at birth.
Surrogacy has helped a lot of women who are unable to carry a pregnancy, this practice has saved many women from the pressure of bearing children. Here are five stories from around the world on surrogacy from around the world.
- New Zealand’s surrogacy laws require change. Most children born out of surrogacy for the first few years of their lives are in legal limbo. https://theconversation.com/who-are-my-parents-why-new-zealands-creaky-surirogacy-laws-are-overdue-for-major-reform-166745
- The pandemic is pushing more women in India to surrogacy. The economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic made more women indulge in surrogacy.
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/pandemic-pushing-more-women-into-surrogacy/amp_articleshow/85854494.cms
- New figures show that the number of parents having a baby using a surrogate in England and Wales quadrupled in the last 10 years. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-58639955.amp
- Reviewer Leslie Feplerin says the comedy “Together Together suffers a little from being too polite, as a comedy it lacks snarl, and as a drama, it lacks, well, event.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/14/together-together-review-ed-helms-surrogacy-comedy-thats-a-little-over-polite
- Israel’s supreme court has ruled that same-sex couples and single men can become parents through surrogacy.
https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_157893