Lawyer who challenged India’s anti-sodomy laws to speak in Sydney

A recent decision of the ACT Supreme Court confirmed that changes to the Parentage Act 2004 (ACT) enacted in 2024 can reach back to recognise certain surrogacy arrangements made before the law changed. The ruling allowed a gay couple to be declared the legal parents of a child born via a traditional surrogate who lived… Read More »A Landmark Win for LGBTQ+ Families in Australia!

When reproductive law meets lived experience, the conversation shifts from theory to practice. At the Society for Ethical Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS) conference in Orange County, California, nearly 400 professionals came together to do exactly that: talk candidly about how to make surrogacy and egg donation safer, fairer and ethically robust. The gathering offered… Read More »What really happens inside the world’s largest ethical surrogacy conference?

A recent collapse of a United States surrogacy agency has again exposed a harsh reality for intended parents: the path to building a family through surrogacy is vulnerable to fraud, mismanagement and sudden collapse. Hundreds of people are reported to be affected, with life savings wiped out, records shredded and law enforcement stepping in. This… Read More »Another US Surrogacy Agency Has Collapsed – Are Your Dreams at Risk?