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Surrogate motherhood: in Rome, a large panel of experts calls for an international ban on the practice

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 13/05/2024 Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 2 min.

The organisation of this conference at the beginning of April 2024 came just a few days before a new meeting of the working group of the International Hague Conference (from 8 to 12 April), whose mandate includes considering the drafting of an international convention on the transnational recognition of filiation resulting from surrogate motherhood. In an open letter published on X, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogacy took the opportunity to reiterate the need to put an...

Olivia Maurel, born through GPA, testifies to the wounds this practice inflicted on her

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 20/02/2024 Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 1 min.

"From all my research, I cannot see there is a ‘good’ version of surrogacy," she tells the Daily Mail. Even when the surrogate mother doesn't donate her eggs, the reality remains that "it's a woman's body that's being rented out, and it's a baby who will be separated from its mother at birth", whereas "it's to her that it feels connected". And in countries that prohibit so-called commercial surrogacy, considerable sums of money are nevertheless paid as compensation. Olivia Maurel also cites th...