What are the Best Interests of the Child in International Surrogacy?
By Professor Eric Blyth, Dr Marilyn Crawshaw and Professor Olga van den Akker,
BioNews
| 02. 17. 2014
As the surrogacy industry grows, so too do calls from parts of the consumer lobby, fertility industry and others for a loosening of international and domestic restraints on surrogacy arrangements. A consequence of this is the potential marginalisation of the best interests of children. Last month a roundtable was convened by the Project Group on Assisted Reproduction (PROGAR) and funded by the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP), to discuss this issue.
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