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Pressure is growing in the international community to take action against surrogacy, which is increasingly viewed as an exploitative practice.
“Progress the proposed Regulation on the Recognition of Parenthood”
Parents by surrogacy charged in human trafficking and rape investigation
“Nobody is entitled to a child”
Ireland can say ‘No’ when it wants to.
Surrogacy will be a $100 billion industry by 2033, according to the UN.
Special rapporteur on violence against women and girls
“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 fact is that the surrogacy industry – which includes markets for eggs and sperm – inevitably dehumanises and exploits women and children.
‘Human life has no price and is not a commodity’
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