Surrogacy

Lost in surrogacy’s Bermuda Triangle

Michael Cook | 03 February 2012

Just when you thought that surrogate motherhood could not get more bizarre and complicated, a news flash comes from Hyderabad, the centre of the Indian surrogacy industry. This story concerns J. Pearl Linda Van Buren Green, a 35-year-old New Yorker, and her son Emperor Kaioyus Van Buren Green.

Hacking scandal executive has daughter via surrogate

Jared Yee | 28 January 2012

Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her husband have become parents through surrogacy.

The grubby reality of Indian surrogacy

Jared Yee | 17 December 2011

From the outside, it’s a two-room apartment. However, within its walls, it’s a barn for 15 surrogate mothers, all at various stages of pregnancy.

Many surrogate children end up in legal limbo

Jared Yee | 10 December 2011

In a story that contrasts with the optimistic surrogacy story in BioEdge last week, at least 15 children born to Irish couples who used overseas surrogates are stuck in a legal limbo.

Overseas couples go to US in search surrogate mothers

Jared Yee | 03 December 2011

India is often described as the world surrogacy hub. But a good number of American women are also bearing children for overseas couples.

Another celebrity surrogacy in UK

Michael Cook | 19 November 2011

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of News of the World who was arrested over the phone hacking at the defunct tabloid, is in the headlines of London papers for something completely different. The tough-as-nails journalist, who looks a bit like a grown-up Hermione Granger, the female lead in the Harry Potter series, has announced that she and her horse trainer husband are expecting a baby in February. A surrogate baby, that is.

One day, two surrogacy horror stories

Jared Yee | 04 November 2011

Two surrogacy nightmares were reported in London’s Daily Mail on the same day last week, highlighting the fact that many risks are associated with the procedure.

Surrogacy thrives in China, despite illegality

Jared Yee | 27 October 2011

While surrogacy is illegal in China, it is booming under lax oversight.

Defending the rights of surrogate mothers in India

Jared Yee | 15 October 2011

Commercial surrogacy is booming in India.

Question marks on surrogacy in Canada

Jared Yee | 23 September 2011

A handful of widely-publicised surrogacy cases in Canada has sparked worry about the commercialisation of baby-making.

20-year-old surrogate mother abandoned

Jared Yee | 16 September 2011

When Cathleen Hachey, 20, offered to be a surrogate for a British couple, she could never have foreseen that they would abandon her by text message 27 weeks in to the pregnancy.

Booming reproductive tourism in Asia threatens local medical services

Jared Yee | 01 September 2011

Local health services in low income countries and women of reproductive age are the little-publicised victims of booming demand for cheap assisted reproduction from people in rich countries, a review in the journal Reproductive Health says.

Chinese surrogates relocate to US

Jared Yee | 24 August 2011

A Californian lawyer is facing jail for brokering 12 illegal surrogacies. But this is small change for Lu Jinfeng, a Chinese man who claims that he has brokered about 3,000 surrogate babies since 2004 -- even though the practice is illegal in China.

Hollywood’s surrogacy boom

Jared Yee | 20 August 2011

There is a baby boom in Hollywood and celebrity surrogacy is “front and centre”, according to the Toronto Sun. Among the celebrities using surrogate mothers are Elton John, Ricky Martin, Nicole Kidman and Neil Patrick Harris. Is this boom becoming a worldwide trend? Dr Stuart Fischoff, a leading media psychologist, says it might be.

US surrogacy expert convicted of baby-selling

12 August 2011

Surrogate motherhood not only for barren parents: Israeli court

Jared Yee | 29 July 2011

The number of children a couple already has is not a sufficient reason to reject a surrogate motherhood application, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled this week.

Bollywood stays in the game with film about surrogacy

Jared Yee | 29 July 2011

Bollywood is keeping right up to date with bioethical dilemmas.

IVF child to have grandma, but no pa and no ma

Jared Yee | 15 July 2011

Marissa Evans, broken-hearted, watched her 21-year-old son die in hospital. When doctors told her it was time to turn off his life support, the 44-year-old chose to harvest his sperm – to try to accomplish his goal to have a son. This summer the divorced single woman hopes to satisfy her longing to have a grandson when a surrogate is impregnated with her son’s sperm – and an egg from a donor she hand-picked

Deaf-mute gay couple creates child with Indian surrogate

Michael Cook | 18 June 2011

An Indian IVF clinic specialising in creating babies for gay couples has delivered twins to a deaf-mute gay couple from the United States. Rotunda-The Center for Human Reproduction, in Mumbai, targets gay couples and also organises Indian surrogates.

At 58, Russian woman uses surrogates to have 4 kids

Michael Cook | 12 June 2011

A 58-year-old Moscow woman has become the grandmother of 4 children after using her deceased son’s sperm and two surrogate mothers.