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 do so. The Times covered this story and quoted our founder. You can read the article, and Helen’s remarks, here.
Surrogacy should be banned for all, irrespective of sex and sexuality, but single men pose an obvious increased safeguarding risk and we do not believe it is good for children to be being deliberately commissioned with the express intention of removing them from their mothers, to be raised by single men.
Many of these surrogacy arrangements will have taken place abroad, where exploitative commercial surrogacy practices are the norm. The majority of children born to surrogate mothers abroad never see her again. We repeat our call on the Government to stop Britons travelling abroad for surrogacy, thus effectively allowing the trafficking of infants back in to the country. Surrogacy is a human rights abuse; it must end.
