On Wednesday 28 May our founder, Helen Gibson, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s programme, The World Tonight, by Shaun Ley.
Speaking about the decision to grant a parental order for a surrogate-born US baby to a 72 year old British couple, our concerns about this case, and surrogacy in general, you can listen to the episode here. Helen appeared between 10.22pm and 10.30pm.
We’re very grateful to BBC Radio 4 for featuring us and giving us a chance to set out our objections to surrogacy.
We are a group of women and men in the UK, who have come together to oppose liberalisation of the law on surrogacy and to raise awareness of the surrogacy industry; we also oppose egg harvesting for the purposes of egg donation, and payments for egg donors. We do not believe it is right to separate mothers and their children, nor do we believe the law should be relaxed to make surrogacy easier in Britain.
Our founder and volunteers hail from left wing backgrounds; we campaign against surrogacy from a feminist perspective, which fundamentally centres the right of children to remain with their mothers, and against the commodification of women’s bodies and the commercialization of pregnancy. All are welcome to join us in our fight.
If you agree, join us now: surrogacyconcern@gmail.com