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But as those affected by surrogacy know, this is far from the reality. Having advised 
hundreds of families created through surrogacy, I know that parents do not choose that 
option lightly. The vast majority have heart‐wrenchingly long and painful journeys behind 
them (tales of miscarriages, stillbirths and gruelling years of IVF disappointments). For gay 
couples, surrogacy gives the hope of a much‐wanted family, and arrangements are entered 
into with planning and care. Surrogate mothers take pride in helping to create families and, 
whether or not they are paid, the parents involved do not treat the enormous and life‐
changing gift they make lightly. Children born through surrogacy arrangements are far 
from commodities or accessories. 

Canadians seeking Indian surrogates to carry their children. 

One of the most memorable stories I did this year was on reproductive tourism — infertile 
Canadians who are travelling abroad for surrogates and egg donors because of the law in 
Canada banning payment of donor sperm or eggs or surrogacy services. 

Those who counsel infertile couples told me that it is almost impossible for anyone who 
hasn't struggled with infertility to understand how overwhelming, and almost primal is the 
urge to have babies. 

Let's embrace surrogacy and recognise the hope and wonderful gift that it brings, and let's 
celebrate and support families created in this way. 

 
Intrusive laws set parent trap  

IN 21st-century Australia, the typical family who arrives at the complicated crossroads of
commercial surrogacy is afraid and demoralised.

While many commentators would have us think they are a gay couple wanting a designer baby,
they are more likely to be heterosexual.

Increasingly Australian women are leaving childbearing until their late 30s or early 40s, either to
establish a career or given the absence of a partner. No longer producing as many or as healthy
eggs, they commonly endure repeated miscarriages and unsuccessful IVF attempts, an emotional
tightrope that can place enormous strain on relationships. Research has shown the human desire
to parent can far outweigh other life goals. And so intending parents remain determined to
explore all options to create a family.

Most of these involuntarily childless go unnoticed; embarrassed to talk about their infertility,
they suffer silently. Many have looked into adoption, only to discover just a handful of
Australian babies available each year and waiting lists of five or more years for international
adoptions. Some look at fostering, yet are deterred by the fear the child may be returned to its
biological parents.

For some it is their doctor who suggests surrogacy. Do they know a long-time friend or family
member who may agree to carry their child for love alone?

For the tiny proportion who have a potential surrogate of the right age and motivation, the long
conversation begins. Public debate on surrogacy and IVF has rightly agreed the interests of the
unborn child need to be paramount.
In Greg Donnelly's opinion piece in this paper on January 5, he quoted from a paper by ethicist
Margaret Somerville in which she wonders whether science will someday show that having both
a mother and father does matter for children's wellbeing. That's the problem with ethicists. They
stew over possibilities without talking to those affected. More useful is to consider research that
has followed up children brought up by one parent, or two parents of the same sex. For decades
such research has consistently shown it is the processes of parenting rather than the family
structure that matters. Children in same-sex or single parent families do not demonstrate any
important differences in development, happiness, peer relations or adjustment.

But what about the psychological wellbeing of children conceived through surrogacy?
Researchers from City University London published a 2006 study in the journal Human
Reproduction comparing three-year-olds conceived via surrogacy, donor insemination and
natural conception. Absence of a genetic and-or gestational link with the parents raising them
was found to have no negative influence on parent-child relationships or the psychological
wellbeing of the children.

Back in the consulting room, the reality of altruistic surrogacy "Australian style" continues to
unfold for intending parents. Would all parties agree to psychological testing? Are they aware
they have no claim on the baby if their surrogate decides to keep the child? Are they and their
surrogate prepared to undergo mandatory counselling and psychological tests? Are they prepared
for a 12-18-month work-up process, allowing for all the necessary ethics approvals?

Such a tightly regulated process means most think twice before involving a female family
member, let alone a friend. In reality, Australia's improved altruistic surrogacy laws protecting
this process will assist only a handful of parents in each state each year.

The vast majority will leave Australia to chase their dream of having children, risking much in
the process. Two Australian couples recently had their own embryos couriered to India in
preparation for implantation in a surrogate. On arrival, the embryos were refused entry, given
they lacked the correct paperwork. A Byron Bay man whose Thai surrogate bore twin girls found
himself a prisoner in his Bangkok apartment for weeks as mass demonstrations provoked
acurfew, street battles and arson.

A Queensland medical specialist ignored that state's laws banning commercial surrogacy and
entered an overseas contract, risking a criminal charge and being struck off as a doctor.

As well as such risks, intending Australian parents spend tens or hundreds of thousands of
dollars in medical, legal, travel and compensation costs in the hope of creating a family. A
Melbourne childless couple I know sold their large home, moving to a smaller one with a larger
mortgage, to afford the escalating costs in the US.

A NSW man was expecting twins by a surrogate in San Diego. He panicked when the surrogate
mother looked likely to deliver at 32 weeks. The US offers no medical insurance for twins born
to non-residents and he faced a potential neonatal intensive care bill of $US140,000, doubling his
costs.
On top of that, Australians in Queensland, the ACT and soon NSW (and Tasmania if its bill is
passed) risk a criminal penalty of $110,000, two years in prison or both, if they admit to creating
a family by compensating a woman for surrogacy overseas.

Labor MP Linda Burney, who tabled this criminalisation amendment in the NSW parliament last
December, believes children born through surrogacy "should have access to information about
the circumstances of their birth and their genetic history". I agree. Such insight is likely
important for a child's psychological wellbeing and their sense of identity.

But Australians utilising commercial surrogacy are now being pushed to do the opposite; to
conceal the child's biological parentage. Not because they don't believe in telling their child, but
to avoid a jail term.

Evidence is already showing such disincentives to commercial surrogacy are not changing
behaviour. Inquiries across Australia have shown that when faced with legal obstacles including
criminal sanctions, intending parents travel wherever necessary and pay whatever they can afford
to pursue their dream of children.

In 1938, the US magazine Fortune ran an article on contraception. The practice was still illegal in
many US states and restricted in the majority, viewed as distastefully as is surrogacy today; an
aberration of nature; an attempt by humans to interfere in God's will, robbing women of a
precious reproductive function. Yet the demand for contraception, like surrogacy, was too strong
to maintain its effective prohibition.

Western societies have seen similar problems when they have outlawed abortion, prostitution,
alcohol and illicit drug use. Australian legislators are clearly irked by the fear that surrogacy
commodifies and unfairly exploits female reproduction. Again they have not consulted the
literature or spoken with surrogates. Ironically, in the US, regardless of the monetary
compensation, the most common reason surrogates carry another's baby is to give the ultimate
gift to an otherwise childless parent. That's real altruism. In contrast, Australian legislators'
attempts to protect surrogates and intending parents are failing miserably.
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wearing disciplinarians who wrestle a surrogate to the floor to get her baby only after their
attempt to steal an infant from the Ukraine fails. In related news, the ...

Oprah Winfrey already weighed-in on global surrogacy, highlighting the practice in India and
happy US "customers." While involvement in global markets is important for marginalized
peoples, especially women, one should not underestimate the need for ...

This is really the main reason we have decided to open the British Surrogacy Centre in early
February," the Telegraph quoted Barrie Drewitt-Barlow as saying. But the couple believes that
the recent birth of Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish’s ...

Marathi film on surrogacy to hit Indian screen on Feb 11 - New Kerala

Mumbai, Jan 7 : American-Marathi film on surrogate motherhood, ''Mala Aai Vhhaychy'',

directed by debutant director-producer Samruodhhi Porey is all set to hit the screens in the US on
January 15 and across India on February 11. The film shows an American ...

Gay couple to launch surrogacy centre

Many Catholic European countries have prohibited surrogacy altogether (although these
restrictions are increasingly proving untenable and reform is afoot in many places). At the other
end of the scale, certain US states, Ukraine and India allow enforceable ...

The Modern Language Assn. is holding its annual conference in Los Angeles -- during the first
week of January, for the first time in many years, rather than between Christmas and New Year's.
Professors and post-graduate students of English and the ...

Japanese Head to U.S. for Fertility Treatments - Wall Street Journal

Due to Japan’s ban on surrogacy and the restrictions placed upon egg donation ... The U.S. is the
most popular destination by far, though lower-cost countries such as India are catching on. As a
result of this boom, the demand for Asian female egg donors ...
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 Marathi film on surrogacy to hit Indian screen on Feb 11 - New Kerala
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