Also pretty outraged by this from Lady Hale.
"Lady Hale, the former president of the supreme court who gave the majority decision, said: “The courts have bent over backwards to recognise the relationships created by surrogacy, including foreign commercial surrogacy. The government now supports surrogacy as a valid way of creating family relationships, although there are no plans to allow commercial surrogacy agencies to operate here."
“It is no longer contrary to public policy to award damages for the costs of a foreign commercial surrogacy......"
“Second, it must be reasonable for the claimant to seek the foreign commercial arrangements proposed rather than to make arrangements within the UK. This is unlikely to be reasonable unless the foreign country has a well-established system in which the interests of all involved, the surrogate, the commissioning parents and any resulting child, are properly safeguarded.”
When did we have that discussion in the UK that the government supports surrogacy?
Why did the courts take it upon themselves to "bend over backwards" to recognise the relationships created by surrogacy, including foreign commercial surrogacy. I'm disgusted. So it's fine to exploit poor women in Asia and the Ukraine?
And what evidence does she have that the interests of the surrogate and the resulting child are properly safeguarded? EVERYTHING I have seen about commercial surrogacy abroad, including in the USA tells me the opposite. These women are shamefully treated.
Does our British woman expect to have a contract with the American surrogate mothers she plans to use similar to these contracts ?
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/11/20390/