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) go abroad to pursue commercial surrogacy.
We believe this is a loophole in the law which must be closed. Commercial surrogacy is banned in the UK; commissioning parents should not be able to circumvent our law and travel abroad to undertake it. Commercial surrogacy involves payment to low income women, often in developing countries, and sees women governed by strict, legally enforceable contracts which control her life in ways which means she loses her reproductive choices for the duration of the pregnancy, and often beforehand.
Mothers in such situations usually lose parental rights to the child at birth, or even before (Mexico City, California), and usually enter the arrangements from a point of financial need. They cannot change their minds, and many will never see their children again.
Surrogacy contradicts all best practice and guidance on the care for newborn infants, who bond with their mothers in utero (regardless of egg used in the pregnancy). We wish to see a ban on surrogacy, in all forms, at home and abroad. But the Government could take a hugely positive step and must now move to stop Britons pursuing surrogacy abroad; we continue to pressure them to do so.
