News on surrogacy is very contrasted in this pandemic time Regulatory pressure is still there. Bills or civil code reforms are under consideration in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia. In the Netherlands, there is an attempt to weaken the current rules governing surrogacy, while in Canada, the legislator is considering turning to commercial surrogacy. New scandals […]
200 Women’s rights organisations call for a ban on surrogacy in Ukraine
Press release 2020-06-03 Women’s rights organisations call for a ban on surrogacy in Ukraine Recently international media have published shocking pictures from the Ukrainian surrogacy industry. Newborn babies in large numbers that cannot be picked up by foreign customers due to the countries’ closed borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation has shed […]
Call to ban all forms of trade in children and women in the surrogacy industry in Ukraine
June 3, 2020 To the attention of Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, Call to ban all forms of trade in children and women in the surrogacy industry in Ukraine Dear mr. Zelensky, We, the undersigning organizations, have been made aware from international media of shocking pictures from one of the biggest […]
May 2020. Surrogacy news around the world
Ukraine, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Canada, Cambodia, the news on surrogacy is very rich in this period of pandemic The baby scandal in Ukraine is a further proof that surrogacy is similar to child trafficking. As we have written: “Commercial surrogacy is the sale of children, according to the UN definition: a […]
Letter to the President of Ukraine on the situation of children born by GPA and stranded in Ukraine
Mr. President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Paris on May 11th, 2010 Mr. President, We have been alerted by the shocking pictures posted online by Biotexcom,, a clinic in Kyiv which offers assisted fertilization and surrogacy services to “intended parents” from all countries. Biotexcom has improvised a large nursery (called “maternal room” despite […]
New York State legalizes commercial surrogacy
New York State adopted its 2020-2021 budget in early April, along with a series of non-fiscal reforms. These include the legalization of commercial gestational “surrogacy” – the practice whereby a woman is paid to carry and deliver a child that is not derived from her oocytes, in order to return it to the people who […]
Book on Surrogacy – Call for paper
ICASM, International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, launches a call for contributions for a forthcoming publication This book should draw up a kind of inventory of abolitionist feminist points of view on Surrogacy, crossing a variety of viewpoints and different approaches (essays, studies, testimonies, chronicles, humour, …). We warmly invite community […]
For a LGBTI Pride 2019 without opression
This is a call from Spanish organizations who are opposed to the use of surrogacy This press release has been first published on https://stopvientresdealquiler.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/for-a-lgtbi-pride-without-oppression-notinourname/ From Stop Vientres de Alquiler, RECAV State Network Against the Surrogacy and NO somos vasijas, on the occasion of the International LGBTI Pride Day 2019, we believe it is necessary to launch this […]
Request to the political parties, candidates in the 2019 European elections
Do not regulate surrogacy but abolish it As European elections are due next months, surrogacy is at stake. The Colition for the Abolition of surrogate motherhood adresses the political parties, candidates to the european elections to ask them to back up the idea of the abolition of surrogacy. Admittedly, the parliament has condemned the practice […]
LIST of all feminist women’s and civil society organizations signatories of the International Statement for a Global Ban on Womb Rental:
25th September 2018 / 25 de septiembre 2018 / 25 septembre 2018 LIST of all feminist women’s and civil society organizations signatories of the International Statement for a Global Ban on Womb Rental: Red Estatal Contra el Alquiler de Vientres (RECAV) / Spanish Network Against Womb Rental (SNAWR) – http://www.noalquilesvientres.com/ España La Coalition Internationale pour […]