News: Surrogacy

Updated: Jul 4/10

CANADA
• Born to surrogate, child has no legal mother, Quebec judge rules. Couple broke provincial law banning the practice (Mar 11/09. CBC.ca. )

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
• Surrogates told to pay support (Jan 25, 2009. Sydney Morning Herald)
• Joy at last for hopeful parents (Apr 24/09. The Courier-Mail)
• Being a surrogate at 16 (Apr 29/09. Triple J radio) 
• Christian lobby opposed to NSW surrogacy moves (May 29/09. Chrisitan Today)

CHINA
• China cracks down on surrogacy agencies (May 9/09. BioEdge)

FRANCE
• Should surrogate mothers be legalised? Ten keys to the debate (Apr 24/09. Rue89)

INDIA
• Warning to couples on Indian surrogacy laws (Jan 26/09. The Age)
• Thanks, India, where bundles of joy are less than a bundle (Jan 24/09. The Age)
• Poverty makes surrogates of women in Gujarat (Apr 24/09. Wall Street Journal)
• Inside India's international baby farm (May 9/10. The Times)
• Surrogacy: profession or exploitation? (May 22/10. BioEdge)

ISRAEL
• Haredi widow to become surrogate mother (May 26/09. Ynet News)
• Two men and a baby - Israel's gay community experiencing a baby boom (May 29/09. Haaretz.com)

UNITED KINGDOM
• UK government to review parenthood following surrogacy (Sept 7/09. BioNews 524)
• Intending mothers fight for maternity leave following surrogacy (Oct 29/09. BioNews 532)
• British surrogate to give birth to her 8th child (Jan 14/10. BioEdge)
• Fertility tourism, parenting orders and surrogacy (The Guardian. 05 April 2010)
• At 24, Louise has given away two surrogate babies and is trying for a third - Why DOES she do it? (May 20/10. Daily Mail)

USA
• Her Body, My Baby. (Nov 28/08. New York Times)
• Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads (Dec 10/08. Wall Street Journal)
• Beverly Hills surrogacy firm accused of fraud (Mar 26/09. San Francisco Chronicle)
• Fetal Foreclosure - If you stop paying a surrogate mother, what happens to the fetus? (Mar 24/09. Slate.com)
• Surrogacy makes for a perilous path to parenthood (Mar 29/09. LA Times)
• Indiana court reverses surrogate adoption (Apr 9/09. UPI.com)
• Surrogacy scandal centers on Texas woman (Apr 26/09. Dallas Morning News)
• Americans using surrogacy to create made-to-order babies (Dec 18/09. BioEdge)
• 21st-Century Babies - Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules (Dec 12/09. New York Times)
• US court to decide legal mother of surrogate baby boy (Feb 7/10. BioNews)