“I haven’t seen a rich woman carrying a baby for a poor woman”: Olivia Maurel was born from surrogacy, and now fights against the practice. She speaks to Gript about her story as a child of surrogacy, and what she says are the dangers of the surrogacy industry.
98 children born via surrogacy in Ukraine to Irish residents
The reality behind the vibes
Women who are depersonalised and expected to surrender the child without qualm
Ukraine “leading surrogacy hub”
The very one-sided Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy has recommended the recognition of ‘compensated surrogacy,’ which is commercial surrogacy by another name, in Ireland and abroad. Under the broad notion of “reasonable expenses”, women will be paid large sums of money to carry a child for someone else under the terms of a contract. Almost […]
Keogan felt “bullied” in Seanad
A leading anti-commercial surrogacy campaigner, Pinki Virani, discusses India’s ban on womb-hire
International surrogacy is often reviled as a system in which Western, mostly white people, exploit the bodies of women in underdeveloped countries, who are often women of colour. A typical feature in the media will display images of poor, heavily pregnant, sari-clad women sleeping in a crowded dormitory. But this is not the image of […]