Thank you @Justme56 for this - a shocking read and one for the pro-surrogacy crowd to reflect upon. Janice Turner would write a good article on this.
It is utterly shocking that babies can be created on commission in this way. That women can be so casually exploited. And that would be parents can do blithely choose to create a baby with no consideration of anything beyond the idea of ”having a baby”.
It seems that the realities for the people (because babies are people not just cute pets) who are being created in this way simply don’t have to be thought through - you can go abroad and commission a baby if you have the funds to do so without any consideration of what happens to get there and what happens next to that person at each stage of their life.
Great that the judge seems determined not to create a precedent here for future adoptions to happen like this, but if presented with the same case again, what other option could anyone choose but the same outcome?