Do we need to worry that surrogacy will be banned in the US? (by the UN??)

  Stat News has a call to prevent surrogacy from being banned, following a recent UN resolution to do just that.

How to keep commercial surrogacy from getting banned
An unlikely alliance working to end surrogacy is gaining power    By Arthur L. Caplan  Oct. 20, 2025
Caplan is head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. 

 

Caplan calls for more regulation, which might be a fine idea.  But I don't share his concern that the UN call to ban surrogacy will lead to it being banned in the US. Surrogacy in one form or another has been legalized in every US state (or maybe all but one.)   This is one of those times where it's good that the UN is toothless. 

 

HT: Martha Gershun