There’s still a lot we don’t know about the impacts of surrogacy on both the women carrying the babies and the babies born to them as a result. In Australia, the numbers of surrogate births each year are estimated to be around 120, with more than 200 surrogate births to Australians abroad.

Changes to surrogacy laws are the focus of a new review being conducted by New Zealand’s Law Commission, which is examining in particular what it refers to as the ‘legal confusion’ regarding legal parentage of babies born to surrogate mothers. Those advocating for a change in the law say that these babies can be left in “legal limbo” for the first few months of their lives because of the way the law currently operates.

A young NSW mum made news recently after disclosing that she almost bled to death following the birth of her baby as part of an altruistic surrogacy arrangement.

After more than a year of living through the Covid-19 outbreak, Australians have reluctantly become accustomed to some of the restrictions on their liberty imposed upon them in a collective effort to curb the outbreak of the virus and minimise illness and loss of life.

How many surrogate babies are too many?

A New Zealand couple has shared a heartbreaking story about a surrogate who aborted their baby without their knowledge.

An Australian surrogacy lobby group has seized on statistics released by the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs to renew calls to legalise commercial surrogacy in Australia.

A California polyamorous throuple has made history in the state by becoming the first to list all three men as fathers on their children’s birth certificates. The two children, Piper, a 3 year old girl (born in 2017) and Parker, a one year old boy (born last year), were conceived by use of donor eggs and donor embryos and the services of a friend offering to act as a surrogate.

In order to address the harms of commercial surrogacy, there have been recent proposals made in the UK and the Netherlands to regulate surrogacy proactively via pre-conception authorisation of surrogacy agreements (PASA).