Surrogacy concern

Our founder has been quoted in The Times, following the news that Nigeria has become the second most popular international surrogacy destination for British-resident commissioning parents, behind the US. Surrogacy Concern uncovered the information following a Freedom of Information request to CAFCASS, who revealed Nigeria has shot up the international league tables of surrogacy destinations… Continue reading

On 18 May 2026 our founder was quoted in The Times, expressing our concern about single British men who pursue surrogacy overwhelmingly travelling abroad to do so. According to our research, the majority of single men who apply for parental orders in the courts in England and Wales for surrogate born children (170 since 2019)… Continue reading

The commentator and former BBC journalist Libby Purves has mentioned our campaign in a column in The Times. Speaking out against surrogacy for single men on 27 April in The Times, Ms Purves condemned the consumerist attitude which surrogacy embodies, and throws down to the gauntlet to our political class, writing “It would take rare,… Continue reading

Our founder has been quoted extensively in an article in the Daily Mail this week, as they cover our concerns regarding an increase in the numbers of single men applying for parental orders for surrogate born babies. The article also covered the rising number of older people applying for parental orders, and the fact that… Continue reading

Surrogacy Concern’s founder has been quoted in The Telegraph as the paper covers the dual story of 170 parental order applications for single men since 2019, and the news that numbers of parental order applications for foreign-born surrogate babies now heavily outnumber applications for babies born to domestic surrogate mothers. Parental order applications in the… Continue reading

Our founder has been quoted in an article in The Spectator, following the news that 170 single men have applied for parental orders for surrogate born babies since 2019. We are very grateful to David Shipley for writing this piece and calling for a surrogacy ban. Public opinion is shifting rapidly on surrogacy as more… Continue reading

On 22 April 2026 our founder was quoted in the print and online editions of The Times, expressing our concern about increasing numbers of single men pursuing surrogacy. Our research has uncovered that 170 men have applied for parental orders for surrogate born children since 2019, when the law changed to allow single people to… Continue reading

Our founder has been quoted in The Critic in a new article by Jo Bartosch about womb transplants. We are gravely worried about womb transplants and believe they will prove to harm more women than they help. Once the medical science exists to make womb transplants from living donors viable at scale, a market will… Continue reading

Surrogacy Concern have welcomed the halting of a trial of puberty blocking drugs on children, after the MHRA expressed concerns about children on the trial being offered egg retrieval and sperm freezing. In a letter, sent last month and co-signed by Stop Surrogacy Now UK, Family Education Trust and Lesbian Labour, we expressed strong concerns… Continue reading

In January 2025 our founder, Helen Gibson, appeared on BBC Radio 4 as part of Sonia Sodha’s series, The Body Politic, to discuss surrogacy, our concerns and why we want to see surrogacy – in all forms – banned in the UK. In February 2026 the series was repeated on BBC Radio 4, with the… Continue reading