If British couples had done this to Irish people during the famine, we would have a national memorial to the lost babies, and Sinn Féin would call it genocide.
Babies on demand
“Vultures” are flying in to take advantage of women’s misery
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 […]
If there was an order of Nuns campaigning for this, on the basis that it was a good path out of poverty for fallen Irish women, we all know what these politicians would be saying.
Keogan felt “bullied” in Seanad
Those of us old enough and foolish enough to recall the abortion referendum of 2018 in Ireland will be familiar with the concept of “Gilead” and the ubiquity, in that campaign, of Handmaids Tale costumes. Drawn from the pages of Margaret Attwood’s masterpiece feminist novel, Gilead is a fictional dystopian world where women of reproductive age […]
Who are the real bigots?
“It would be a moral and medical disaster if Britain became a surrogacy centre”.
What we have, with surrogacy, is a legal severing of the natural ties between birth mother and child.
A leading anti-commercial surrogacy campaigner, Pinki Virani, discusses India’s ban on womb-hire
An Australian surrogacy lobby has called for commercial surrogacy to be legalised in Australia. It is currently banned in all of the country’s states. However, in 2019-20 275 babies born overseas to surrogate mothers were granted Australian citizenship, the highest number on record. Thailand and India, formerly popular destinations, no longer allow foreigners to employ surrogate mothers, […]