On 11 December 2025 we were quoted in The Times online, in response to a story involving a British couple who had met a surrogate mother on Facebook. During the surrogate mother’s attempts to get pregnant using the commissioning father’s sperm, she fell pregnant with another man’s child.
After realising the child was not biologically his, the commissioning couple lied and faked a DNA test to attempt to obtain a parental order for the baby. The parental order application was then withdrawn, but the commissioning parents have managed to obtain an adoption order; meanwhile the surrogate mother was paid £16,000 and had used her own egg in the pregnancy, thus giving up her own genetic child.
Cases such as this are not untypical in UK surrogacy, with many couples matching with women on social media accounts. “Traditional” surrogacy is common, and tens of thousands of pounds are exchanged in return for babies.
This trade in British children needs to stop. Better regulation cannot improve this practice, which is fundamentally unethical and exploitative. Britain must ban surrogacy in all its forms. Our quote below:
“This case exemplifies everything that is wrong with the UK’s so-called altruistic surrogacy model. It seems nobody in this arrangement considered the needs and rights of the child.”
