City Fertility Centre Melbourne

Surrogacy is as much a human-rights issue as it is a family-law matter. Courts around the world are grappling with competing rights: the right to procreate and access assisted reproductive treatment, the child’s right to identity, and the surrogate’s right to bodily autonomy and fair treatment. These tensions shape how laws and court decisions treat… Read More »Human Rights & Surrogacy: Protecting Parents, Children & Surrogates

A legal career that began in mainstream family law evolved into one of Australia’s most specialist practices in fertility, surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology. Over almost four decades, Stephen Page has handled thousands of complex matters, influenced law reform, advised clinics, taught ethics and regulation, and championed the human rights of everyone affected by assisted… Read More »How I Became a Fertility and Surrogacy Lawyer

Stephen Page’s story is a frank, sometimes brutal, ultimately hopeful account of what it means to pursue parenthood when the path is anything but straightforward. From a childhood conviction to be a dad, to confronting infertility, miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy and the legal uncertainty around parentage, his journey illustrates the medical, emotional and legal hurdles… Read More »Lessons From My Own Surrogacy Journey