On April 1, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill that legalised the previously-banned practice of paid surrogacy – that is, paying a woman to be impregnated through IVF with the biological ...

Commercial surrogacy might look like the harnessing of technology to enhance reproductive freedom. But in reality, this practice invariably involves wealthy couples renting poorer women's bodies. And ...

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced new legislation today aimed at preventing foreign adversaries, including Communist China, from exploiting U.S. surrogacy laws to obtain American citizenship for ...

The buying and selling of human babies has gone unnoticed by federal policymakers for too long, but that may soon change. In the past three months, the subject has generated several stories that ...

Thailand's parliament has voted to ban commercial surrogacy after outrage erupted over the unregulated industry following a series scandals including the case of an Australian couple accused of ...

The Supreme Court’s recent observations about the legality of going in for surrogacy for the second child has raised the fundamental issue of what a law is meant to regulate ...

As abortion restrictions increase in states around the country, New Yorkers pride themselves on protecting women from those who would force them to bear children. But commercial surrogacy and abortion ...

PIERRE, S.D. — A bill that would prohibit commercial surrogacy contracts and provide a penalty for facilitating a commercial surrogacy passed through the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Jan.

This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born this way and the potentially devastating consequences of babies ...

As a conservative Catholic, I rarely find myself standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Gloria Steinem. Strange times make for strange bedfellows however, and Steinem won my admiration last ...

Finally, feminists and conservatives can agree on something: Commercial surrogacy is harmful to women. This week, the New York state Senate passed the “Child-Parent Security Act,” which would legalize ...

Gammy, a baby born with Down's Syndrome, is kissed by his surrogate mother Pattaramon Janbua at a hospital in Chonburi province August 3, 2014. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK ...