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 courts for foreign-born surrogate babies now outnumber domestic births at a ratio of around 2.5:1, and the number is growing rapidly.
While commercial surrogacy practices are banned here, Britons are increasingly getting around this by going abroad to pursue surrogacy, often to developing countries, before returning to the UK with babies. Often these children will never see their mothers again. In commercial destinations women cannot change their minds, are under strict legally enforceable contracts and often lose their rights to the child while still in utero.
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