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Launched in 2019. Here to fight against UK proposals on law reform and raise awareness on the darker side of #surrogacy .

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🧵1. It’s 1 year today since the Law Commission’s for Eng, Scot & Wales proposed relaxing domestic surrogacy law. We have campaigned against these plans for 4 years, this Govt say there isn’t time to pursue the proposals. We think you might like to know what changes are proposed.

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“Macron claimed surrogacy is “not compatible with the dignity of women” and equated it to “turning their bodies into commodities.” An unequivocal statement from Emmanuel Macron. We agree. #surrogacy #GPA

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Macron sets out plan for more French babies amid falling birth rate | ITV News

The French president is stepping in after the country's birth rate hit its lowest point since World War II. | ITV National News

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Thread: When is a mother a mother? Many People have heard of Baby Gammy, the Thai boy born to a surrogate mother and rejected by his Australian commissioning parents due to his having Down’s syndrome whilst they kept his twin sister. Gammy’s mother opted to raise him herself.

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“…to deliberately bring a child into the world in order to separate it from its mother at birth I think is just ethically not acceptable.” We agree with Miriam Cates.

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Anger as Miriam Cates calls for surrogate baby ban,

In a series of outspoken comments, Miriam Cates, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, branded surrogacy 'just ethically not acceptable', declaring: 'You don't have a right to become a parent.'

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Norwegian Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe says that as it illegal to use a surrogate mother in Norway it should not be permitted to use a surrogate mother abroad.

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@JenniferLahl Hopefully the law will pass. Way to go 🇮🇹 Italy! Couldn’t put it better: “Backers of the new legislation say through surrogacy babies were being treated as “merchandise” and that the birthing technique is an “execrable example of the commercialisation of the female body”.”

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Imagine growing up to discover your parents sought out a cheap deal to buy you from an impoverished woman in a country facing the threat of war & left her there to take her chances. International surrogacy tourism should be prosecuted as people trafficking which is what it is.

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Thanks to everyone who has contacted me about my constituents Alice & Ben who are stuck in Ukraine. I’ve been assisting them for over a month now and have raised the case directly with James Cleverly. I’m working as hard as I can to get them home along with their baby Raphael.

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The BBC Rome correspondent purchased harvested eggs from a woman in #Ukraine , paid a fertility clinic in Israel, paid a woman in Canada (just 'expenses' you understand) before flying the baby girl to Portugal when she was just weeks old.

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This is the most personal piece I've ever written. It's about our daughter, surrogacy, and the ups and downs on the road to fatherhood. It also marks my return to work after a long, wonderful paternity leave. Please listen. 'From our own Correspondent', @BBCRadio4

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You think you know pretty much enough not to be shocked any more but this report has laid bare the international trade in babies. The crying surrogate mother, who heads home to her family once she has signed her papers. The 6 month old babies desperate for love and attention.

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"The future of these children is even more in doubt. How long will it be before it's impossible, completely impossible, for their new parents to come and rescue them?" @kileycnn reports on the efforts to keep surrogate-born babies safe from Russian bombardment in Kyiv.

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Just another wealthy woman renting the use of a poor woman’s body. The readiness of society generally to accept a breeder class of woman is extraordinary. Paris Hilton shocks fans by announcing arrival of newborn

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Paris Hilton shocks fans by announcing arrival of newborn

The socialite, 41, made the announcement via Instagram, which included a photo of the new mom clutching onto her infant's hand.

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Not so many people are familiar with Britain’s own Baby Grammy, a twin girl who was cruelly rejected by her commissioning mother who kept the sibling baby boy. Woman rejected disabled surrogate baby as a ‘dribbling cabbage’.

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Incredible to see women gather in #Glasgow #FiLiA2023 to demonstrate the outright rejection of #surrogacy #lawreform and recognise the harms. We have been raising awareness since 2019 and are overwhelmed to experience this level of support from the women from all over the world.

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“The woman who graciously became our surrogate *had been offered up for duty by her husband*, a friend of my husband’s, *hastily and without her knowledge*. Yet, over dinner with us, she agreed.” #surrogacy

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‘Our son was eight years in the making’: 11 women on getting through the marathon of infertility

A growing number of Black women in the US are choosing IVF, surrogacy and other medical interventions to have children – and ending the silence around their difficulties conceiving

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The dark heart of surrogacy - a thread 🧵 Nowhere is the callous nature more apparent than in the Law Commission discussions around still birth. We apologise in advance for the upsetting nature of this thread and advise caution if you are grieving baby loss. #surrogacy

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We were shocked by published responses to the Law Commission Consultation, revealing the dark heart of the surrogacy industry. This response from a NHS OBG deserves a thread of its own.

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Poor Khloe had planned a weekend at Disneyland with daughter True so the ObGyn made an unusual offer: "‘You know what, I’ll deliver the baby, I’ll take the baby, and you come let me know when you’re ready to pick him up.’” Babies = groceries #surrogacy

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Khloé Kardashian's OB-GYN Offered To Take Her Newborn Son Home When She Was Panicking

Khloé Kardashian was not ready for son Tatum to be born, so her OB-GYN offered to take him for awhile.

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What these cases show us is that surrogate mothers have a strong sense of maternal responsibility to the babies they carry. They may coach themselves the baby “isn’t theirs” “they are just #extremebabysitting ”, not for nothing do surrogacy agencies offer regular counselling.

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But when their baby is rejected they step up and mother the baby themselves. Which brings us to the question - when is a mother a mother?

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About 200 babies are expected in the next 3 months from this one clinic in Ukraine.There are about 50 IVF clinics in Ukraine, clients from around the world. #PeopleTrafficking starts here. "We have managed to acquire a real bomb shelter near the clinic"

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"We have managed to acquire a real bomb shelter near the clinic"

This morning, I communicated with BioTexCom, a large fertility clinic in Kyiv. Their international patients come from all around the world: Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Poland, Norway, S…

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The Harrell’s cared for Seraphina until her death shortly before her eight birthday.

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Girl in prominent surrogacy case dies

A young girl who made headlines when her surrogate mother refused $10,000 from her biological family to have an abortion has died aged eight in Boston, Massachusetts.

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It seems that under the new proposals when the baby is born alive the CPs will be the legal parents. But should the baby be born dead then the Surrogate Mother is the legal parent. How can this be? Either a woman who gives birth is the mother and legal parent or she is not.

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Within “fertility privilege” there is the idea that a woman isn’t using her eggs when she has a period, she’s just throwing them away (as if she is irresponsible). Why doesn’t she ‘use’ her eggs to do some good and help someone else? The “why not help” guilt trip is here already.

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A prediction: guilt tripping women over our ability to get pregnant will be the next big thing.

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If pre-birth parental orders are accepted into UK law, as proposed by the law commission, then surrogate mothers will not be legal mothers at birth.

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Women are universally useful for their labour (work) for their labour (reproductive services) and for their good, cheap deals (poverty and vulnerability). There is no end to the exploitation made possible by the laws that facilitate this. #surrogacy

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How to continue exploiting a woman after stealing her child. Only $24 for 12 hours. A great offer.

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In the USA the mother of Seraphina Harrell refused the demands of commissioning parents to abort baby Seraphina due to her serious congenital abnormalities even after being offered $10,000 to do so. The Harrell’s (her surrogate mother & husband) adopted her and cared for her.

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The commissioning father proved to be somewhat unreliable, asking her to keep the baby “for a few months” until he had sorted himself. surrogacy has gone wrong

surrogacy has gone wrong | Mumsnet

So, I decided to surrogate for my gay friends. I'm due in days. Anyway we didn't go tonal clinic we just used one the home insemination kits and it...

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Obviously the war has exposed the dreadful trade in babies from Ukraine but this isn’t new. Look at the pictures. Many of the babies featured are clearly not newborn. Why have they not been collected. Will they ever have a family? @lumos @jk_rowling

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In a Kyiv Basement, 19 Surrogate Babies Are Trapped by War but Kept Alive by Nannies (Published...

Some surrogate mothers are trapped by the fighting as their due dates near. And newborns face uncertain fates, with many biological parents now unable to travel to Ukraine.

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In another case, unrelated to disability, a UK surrogate mother who had made an unwise independent agreement with friends understood she was ultimately responsible for the baby she was carrying, and appears to have decided to raise the baby herself.

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With a pre-birth parental order in place would a surrogate mother need to adopt her own baby, as the Harrell’s did? Who cares for the baby whilst parental responsibility is being decided? Who agrees medical decisions if the baby requires medical treatment?

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Apparently it’s too much to ask to say “Bye and thanks” 🤷‍♀️

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These different scenarios will need to be thoroughly explored in order to prioritise the best interests of the child whilst protecting the rights of the mother. #surrogacy #uksurrogacy #LawCommission #BuildingFamilies #ParentalResponsibility #SurrogateMothers #Mothers

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What a depressingly lightweight discussion of #Surrogacy @BBCNewsnight Women are not breeders to supply babies for people who can't get them any other way. And babies are not gifts for handing out to anyone who wants them.

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And with twins - is it OK for CPs to take one child and have the other child adopted? Would this nullify the pre-birth parental order for both twins returning legal rights to the surrogate mother?

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2019 USA Story where the Commissioning Parents tell the Surrogate Mother that she must terminate the pregnancy due to Covid and it being bad timing. "What do you mean? It's a baby. It's a healthy baby. I'm not understanding."

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The BBC finally picks up on the Pope’s words on #surrogacy as a “violation of both the woman and the child.” (This comes from Religion Editor and colleague and not the BBC Rome Correspondent, who is a commissioning father. Perhaps he is on holiday...)

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Vatican stands firm on social issues like sex change and surrogacy

The Vatican remains opposed to concepts like abortion and euthanasia, describing them as "grave violations".

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This is a hugely significant step forward, well done to all that worked to make this happen 👏🏻 There is much work to be done but more and more decision makers are now recognising #surrogacy as a harmful practice. We hope our own government are listening… #lawreform

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Today, the European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill to prohibit #surrogacy in all EU States, as it's TRAFFICKING of women and commercialization of newborns. Only @RenewEurope and @GreensEFA voted against.

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NHSOBG hasn’t time to read the full 500 page consultation but they think its “a very good thing”. They refer to the Surrogate Mother as “The Host”.

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The same Shane Dawson who ‘joked’ “One time, I laid my cat down on her back,’ he began before implying he had simulated sex and ‘came all over her’.” (Metro) has obtained twin boys through #surrogacy 🚩🚩🚩

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YouTube stars Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams welcome twin boys via surrogate

The married couple documented their journey to fatherhood online.

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NHSOBG doesn’t seem to realise that the pregnant woman is the patient to which they owe a duty of care. The one person who should be at the centre of all decision making. A woman who will grieve a still born baby. And a woman whose informed consent and privacy are a human right.

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Another USA case of a surrogate mother, Heather, who refused to abort a baby on the demand of the CPs is discussed on our blog here.

Breeders – quotes from Surrogate Mothers

Following the review of BBC Three’s The Surrogates it felt appropriate to hear from some Surrogate Mother’s from America, where the commercial surrogacy is an industry is strong and gro…

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A woman is not a cupboard. #surrogacy

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“The womb provides nothing to the situation besides storage of the fetus”. We beg to differ.

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Would social services step in leaving the surrogate mother with no say? Would hospitals need to go to court to have the baby declared a ward of court in order for best interests decisions to be made, independent of the (surrogate) mother?

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In the consultation document the Law Commission state that if the commissioning parents reject the child then social services will have to step in the same as they would in a situation where natural parents reject a child.

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In every single surrogacy arrangement a newborn is removed from his or her mother. Whether she was only paid ‘expenses’ or she was ‘compensated’ for her reproductive service. Every single one. This is #surrogacy .

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This is what surrogacy takes away.

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This and other ‘baby dens’ were established during travel bans and again when Russia invaded. As babies ‘age out’ of the newborn phase and are left uncollected, someone has to care for them and it’s usually volunteers and as we see here, they are mostly women. #surrogacy

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Some of these babies are months old, awaiting collection. This is a baby farm. This is surrogacy.

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In which case, this would mean the surrogate mother was suddenly the legal mother after all, the mother of both babies, until legal responsibility of the chosen one was handed over.

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On #InternationalWomensDay2024 we need to talk about the dehumanising language in #surrogacy . In articles, in conversations, in academia and research studies, women are reduced to their reproductive capabilities. Can you see it yet? #WomenAreHuman #IWD2024 #ThisIsNotAGame

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Swedish couple - aged 68 and 71 - buy a baby from abroad. Reminder: There is no upper age limit proposed by the Law Commissions of England and Wales, and Scotland, for reform of #surrogacy in the UK.

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La GPA en Suède - un couple de septuagénaires a acheté des jumeaux par le biais d'une GPA (en faisant appel à une société nordique qui facilite les accords de GPA à l'étranger pour les parents nordiques). #stopGPA @CasaDeclaration

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Babies who should have been collected months ago, well before this war started. This is a shocking and disgusting trade in babies, bred to order, collected at the buyers convenience. #PeopleTrafficking #Surrogacy @object @nordicmodelnow @ariana_erbon @GaryJPowell @JenniferLahl

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Read our latest guest blog post from a surrogate mother who had a baby for a family member 10 years ago. The pain and trauma she experienced continues today. The harms in #surrogacy never leave you and this woman is far from alone in her experience.

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“I made the biggest mistake of my life, all to help someone”– Guest Post from Marie Anne Isabelle...

Ten years ago I was a gestational surrogate for a family member on the understanding that I would have ongoing contact with the child that I would give birth to. Naively, I did not realise that thi…

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The two year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine passed this week. This couple knowingly signed off on the implantation of an embryo into a woman living in a war zone. Her experience is omitted entirely here.

Passport issued to baby born through surrogacy in Ukraine | ITV News

JauntyBau was born at the end of January through surrogacy and will be able to travel to Northern Ireland with his parents. | UTV News

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We leave the last word to a respondent (self described as a medical practitioner or counsellor) who expressed their view (and ours) perfectly. “I find the disregard for birth mothers very callous”.

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One such event was described by a NHS obstetrician who criticised the SM who arranged the funeral of the stillborn baby whilst excluding the CPs. He seems to have forgotten that the SM was his patient and should have been the focus of his care.

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Of course we always say the pregnant woman is the mother and a woman who gives birth must always be the legal parent. For the Law Commissioners to acknowledge a woman’s grief when the worst happens whilst ignoring it in life seems a particularly perverse and cruel inconsistency.

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@rodericogorman “Protect the welfare of surrogate mothers”? The best way to protect women’s welfare is to ban surrogacy and ban the importation of babies commissioned and bought from impoverished women in poorer countries.

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It is truly shocking and chilling to think NHSOBGs have attitudes like this. Surrogate Mothers deserve better.

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After posting our blog last week we heard from other midwives who attended the webinar on #surrogacy hosted by the @MidwivesRCM . Their feedback has been shocking and concerning. Another Midwife who attended gave us her permission to share her words here.

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Words from a Midwife: Part Two – Guest Post from Anonymous (short read)

After we published Part One of this blog last week, a number of midwives got in touch with us to tell us more about Royal College of Midwives’ webinar on surrogacy. Part Two is a another writ…

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Lucy Lui gives an interview on her ‘journey to motherhood’. #celebritysurrogacy “She further added that her entire decision to become a mother was completely based on her desire.” Not a word on the woman who gave birth. #womenarehuman #surrogacy

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“I just pulled the trigger”: Lucy Liu Refused to do Any Research Before Becoming a Mother as She...

Lucy Liu, well known for her iconic roles in movies like Charlie’s Angels, has provided insight into her journey towards becoming a mother

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The U.K. government would not assist people to buy a five year old or even a two year old from Ukraine. Why is it acceptable to buy a baby?

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Another celebrity ‘uses’ a surrogate mother who miscarries twice. CF: “So we’re thinking, is there something going on, either with the surrogate or with our embryos?” CM: “…do we put in one of the embryos that’s already made in the surrogate right now and just get that going…”

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When NHSOBG says “it’s difficult to imagine a situation where invasive tests could not be anything other than the choice of the host” one senses they wish this wasn’t so, reserving sympathy for the Commissioning Parents (referred to as Intended Parents or IPs).

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“The only reason why I agreed to do this is just for the financial benefits”, said Dana, 36. “Plus, since my husband left for the frontline, I need a way to support my other four children.” #Ukraine #surrogacy

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‘The bombs won’t stop us’: business brisk at Ukraine’s surrogacy clinics

Russia’s invasion has not deterred hundreds of foreign would-be parents from travelling to war-torn Kyiv and other centres

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@SurrogConcern The second image refers to ‘twiblings’. This is when commissioning parents have two women pregnant at the same time and the embryos implanted are genetically related. As arranged pregnancies, the babies are scheduled to arrive around the same time so they look like twins.

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@NoCisgender The linguistic assault appears in #surrogacy too. It’s an age-old tactic to dehumanise women and make them into objects for use, pleasure or benefit.

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On #InternationalWomensDay2024 we need to talk about the dehumanising language in #surrogacy . In articles, in conversations, in academia and research studies, women are reduced to their reproductive capabilities. Can you see it yet? #WomenAreHuman #IWD2024 #ThisIsNotAGame

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The stories in this article share the true horrors of IVF and heartbreak of infertility but the #surrogacy examples involve another person. A woman. These women, however willing (or unwilling) are not medical instruments through which #infertility can be ‘solved’.

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When the relationship between the Surrogate Mother and the CPs breaks down, all sympathy is reserved for those CPs who had no legal rights over a still born baby delivered by a woman who NHSOBG fails to understand may have been somewhat distressed by the situation

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My heart goes out to those women who are pregnant, worried about their families, unsure where they will have the baby or what medical care they can expect. Babies are likely to be born prematurely with their mothers feeling stressed and blood pressure rising. Will buyers collect?

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“it was difficult for the intended parents as they had no say in the decision whether to have it performed” Those poor CP’s , with no say in the decision to perform an invasive test on the pregnant woman carrying the baby.

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Today @APPGsurrogacy meets to discuss proposals from the @Law_Commission and the draft legislation. A good time to refresh this excellent article @nordicmodelnow The Law Commission’s Surrogacy Consultation: How to bamboozle through a dangerous new law

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The Law Commission’s Surrogacy Consultation: How to bamboozle through a dangerous new law | Nordic...

The UK Law Commission is running a consultation on proposals that would open up surrogacy in the UK, including provisions for paying birth mothers and allowing the advertising of surrogacy-enabling...

nordicmodelnow.org

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How many more are there? How many will just be abandoned? It’s estimated there are about 3000 surrogate born babies a year in Ukraine, maybe more, no one is counting. Nearly 60 a week. There must be many awaiting collection even now.

Families face anxious wait for Ukraine-born babies to be issued UK passports

Daniel Williams, whose four-month-old is waiting to be issued a British passport, said he and his family are ‘100 stuck’ in Ukraine.

www.thenational.scot

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“Why do so many believe that it is a ‘right’ for anyone to have their own biological child?” The brilliant Julie Bindel on #surrogacy .

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Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?

Why do so many believe that it is a ‘right’ for anyone to have their own biological child?

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Two years on and we wonder where these babies (now toddlers) are now and we wonder where their mothers are. Have they survived, are they in contact with the commissioning parents or have they been long forgotten? #surrogacy

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These newborn babies in a bomb shelter in #Kyiv are waiting for their parents. The babies were born and carried by Ukrainian surrogate mothers. The biological parents cannot pick up their children because of the war.

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Greek police arrest 8 in operation to expose human trafficking & exploitation in #eggdonation & #surrogacy . Like UK, Greece permits regulated #altruisticsurrogacy . The health minister who oversees assisted reproduction facilities & licences has been fired.

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Greek police dismantle network exploiting surrogate mothers

The Greek authorities dismantled a network allegedly exploiting women as surrogate mothers and egg donors. The clinic involved says it only wants to "help people."

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International surrogacy tourism is an international trade in babies. How can anyone see it as anything else? What will happen to these babies born in war, in a bomb shelter? What care for a sick/premature baby and the mother? Will buyers collect?

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When problems arise in a pregnancy, and CPs possibly demonstrate more concern for “their baby/ies than for the woman hired to gestate them, and maybe attempt to dictate medical treatment, it should be no surprise that the relationship between parties should become strained.

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A young woman permanently harmed through egg donation. And considerably financially worse off too. @SurrogConcern @scotgovhealth

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What I Wish I Knew Before I Donated My Eggs — We Are Egg Donors

I’ve wanted to write this article for such a long time. Egg donation tends to be a sensitive subject for many different reasons. I’m going to share my story here in all aspects – the good, the bad,...

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The rise of social surrogacy threatens the rights of women who wish to go through pregnancy and give birth to their own children. Meanwhile creating a “breeder” class of woman.

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Is the rise of surrogacy deepening class divides?

Increasingly, patients are avoiding time off work by paying someone else to have their baby – but it’s a luxury not many can afford.

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Six arrested in yet another #surrogacy scandal, "Shangguan...accused Ye of brokering the sale of babies and facilitating surrogacy arrangements, which are illegal in China. It is not clear how many babies...have been trafficked through the hospital."

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Six people arrested in China’s Hubei province over ‘baby-trafficking ring’

Whistleblower claims hospital director colluded with ‘online intermediaries’ to sell birth certificates for about £10,750

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And another scandal from a Greek hospital “It is accused of exploiting 169 women from countries including Ukraine, Romania and Georgia, forcing them to be surrogate mothers or egg donors and keeping them under surveillance.”

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Agency owner & commissioning father in Canada 'uses' 9 women to have 3 children through #surrogacy . "After six surrogates and three egg donors and 10 embryo transfers, my first daughter Nanette was born via my sixth gestational surrogate.’ he said"

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I’ve spent £285,000 to become a single dad of three

'Being a dad is priceless'

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Children born from #surrogacy arrangements are speaking up. Other voices of these children, now adults, include KC Miller (a detransitioner) and Jessica Kern. Please listen to them.

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Jessica speaks out about being born of commercial surrogacy

Jessica Kern talks about the importance of biological connections and not being a "product" who has been bought and sold in surrogacy arrangements.

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I was born from surrogacy and I am now fighting against surrogacy. Here is my speech given at a conference in the Czech Republic parliament, and most precisely in one of the most prestigious rooms of the parliament. I am so honored. Please listen and feel free to share !

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Control over the woman who gave her eggs, over the chosen embryo (sex selection)? Control over the woman who was pregnant and her labour? This commissioning couple boast of the power & control their money gives them. And it is celebrated. #surrogacy

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“We started looking in to adoption… surrogacy gave us more control”. Yes, and fewer background checks.

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“There is a shortage of egg and sperm donors across the UK…the recent national donor gamete campaigns to help alleviate this shortage.” A ‘shortage’ implies a lack of supply, like a medicine, but it is not a woman’s job to supply her eggs. Nor a man’s job to supply his sperm.

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Today in @heraldscotland we reveal @scotgov targeted ads at people as young as 18 for eggs & sperm in 2021/22/23. Cost? Over £186,500.00. Gametes are not a public resource. To take action on egg retrieval email surrogacyconcern @gmail .com @andrewlearmonth

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This webinar has now been removed from the website. Has the webinar been cancelled @MidwivesRCM ? Please confirm.

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Surrogacy: championing diversity. Join us on 22 February for an online webinar on surrogacy and supporting choice. Book today:

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These complex cases are all picked up by the NHS, investing the best of fetal medicine and NICU facilities for premature babies. But CPs expect sick babies to be transferred free of charge to a nearby NICU to suit their convenience. #Surrogacy

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“Her body her choice” they say…until she signs that contract.

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Surrogate mothers coach themselves, with reinforcement from the surrogacy community that they are not the parent, it is not their baby. Often the baby may have no genetic relationship to the surrogate mother (although in the U.K. approximately 1/3 of surrogacy is “traditional”.

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Single man buys twins from Kenya despite knowing the system was “…markedly less regulated and predictable” and “where medical and legal resources might not mirror those available back home,” he explained.

This gay man became a single father of twins after deciding to navigate surrogacy alone - LGBTQ...

"Stella and Mia are not just my children, they're the center of my world."

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In a #surrogacy deal between a rich and poor woman, only one is acting as a free agent | Catherine Bennett

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In a surrogacy deal between a rich and poor woman, only one is acting as a free agent | Catherine...

Celebrities pay well to outsource childbirth, but given the exploitation and health risks can it ever be enough?

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This is so shocking there is little more to say other than, where are you? @tusla @OCO_ireland #surrogacy .

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Seanad Committee stage begins. Stephen Donnelly has REJECTED @SenatorKeogan ’s amendment to exclude those convicted of sexual offences from engaging in surrogacy services. This is shocking. #StopSurrogacyNow

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When pregnancy complications arise this often leads to strained relations between the surrogate mother and the commissioning parents. Possible the CPs express more concern over “their” baby than the wellbeing of the SM. Or try to take control of medical decisions.

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This follows the statement on surrogacy from Ukraine's Children Ombudsman, Mykola Kuleba, calling #surrogacy the “exploitation and slavery of women who decide to become a surrogate mother" and “making money on the sale of children”. #babybuying

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“The person carrying their son is doing so in another country since it is illegal in Italy, like many other European countries.” Person? Think the word you’re looking for is woman, and if she’s having a baby that makes her a mother, albeit through an arranged pregnancy #surrogacy

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BREAKING NEWS - LEGAL FIRST - PARENTAL ORDER OVERTURNED #surrogacy #SurrogacyRegret #Motherhood #DisappearingWomenAsMothers #AltruisticSurrogacy #ParentalRights

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In the final report the Law Commission seemed to take account of the responses and the emotional nature of such an event. They recommended that in the event of a stillbirth the Surrogate Mother would be the legal parent of the baby.

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Another commissioning parent at the BBC in a senior position 👀 #surrogacy

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The new male director of BBC Sport used a surrogate to provide him with twins. Amazing how these men know exactly what a woman’s body is capable of when they need a child but are completely ‘in the dark’ to the mountain of scientific evidence about our bodies in sport.

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A stillbirth is a great tragedy and we acknowledge that CPs will also grieve the loss of “their” baby. This discussion and the final proposals reveal a desperately sad inconsistency at the heart of the proposals to assign legal parenthood at birth to the Commissioning parents.

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Welcome to our new followers. If you haven’t already sent a letter to your MP please do so now, there will be a meeting of the APPG on Surrogacy very soon, so now is the time to let your MP know you reject the new proposals for Surrogacy Law in the UK.

Ask your MP to say NO to commercial-style surrogacy in the UK | Nordic Model Now!

Send a template letter to your MP in two minutes calling for the rejection of the Law Commission’s recommendations for a commercial-style surrogacy system in the UK and tips for writing your own...

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The Spanish Supreme Court considers that surrogacy violates the rights of pregnant mothers and children in #surrogacy but also the fundamental rights of pregnant mothers and children *in general*.

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We appreciate that infertility is very difficult but one woman’s experience cannot overshadow the mistreatment of “ hundreds of women who had agreed to act as surrogates.” Why is the focus not on these women? #surrogacy

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Sarah has a baby due in October. She fears she may never get to meet it

An Australian woman caught up in a surrogacy scandal in Greece has spoken about her emotional ordeal as she desperately fights to be allowed to keep her baby.

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A long ambulance journey, with attendant paediatrician and paediatric nurse. Presumably as the Surrogate Mother was the legal mother, this lead to argument over funding the transfer to a hospital that wasn’t the local hospital of the SM. Assuming the availability of a NICU cot.

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