Showing posts with label surrogacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surrogacy. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

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 Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now.  A leader in the German go...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Moral Economics on Lives Well Lived, by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek

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 The moral philosophers Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek interviewed me about Moral Economics on their podcast Lives Well Lived. ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Complex tragedy in a headline: Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza Hostage Killed by IDF Fire to Use Son's Sperm for IVF

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 Rarely does a headline capture so much of a complicated tragedy.  Read it at least twice. From Haaretz:  Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Surrogacy stories (state regulators, take note)

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 Surrogacy in the U.S. has become well established, with commercial surrogacy legal in almost all US states.  But problems sometimes occur, ...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Surrogacy, and escrow accounts

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  Surrogacy contracts involve a long term relationship, focused on a nine month pregnancy.  So commercial surrogacy depends on secure financ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

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

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  Stat News has a call to prevent surrogacy from being banned, following a recent UN resolution to do just that. How to keep commercial sur...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Demand for surrogacy outstrips supply in England (where commercial surrogacy is illegal)

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  Economics in action. The Guardian has the story: ‘It’s overwhelming’: woman who was UK’s first surrogate closes agency as demand soars Kim...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

The UN General Assembly issues a call for surrogacy to be outlawed

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 A growing number of families are formed by gestational surrogacy, in which a woman bears a child for another couple.  Surrogacy is legal th...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Informed consent and compensation for clinical trial participants (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart in REStat)

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 Here's the latest in a series of papers that suggests that participants who are attracted to e.g. clinical trials by the pay may be tho...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Surrogacy under continued attack in Italy

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The language of repugnance is strong in these latest developments. The NYT has the story: Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Se...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Children in China

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 The NYT ran an interactive story on China's change in family policy, from one child (from 1979 to 2015), to two and now to three. At th...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Foreign surrogacy in Denmark is becoming less restrictive

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 Above the Law has the story: Denmark Passes New Pro-Surrogacy Regulations. The new rules in Denmark focus on two areas of surrogacy.  By EL...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy

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 The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), one of the technological tools that allows surrogacy, on the grounds tha...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Interview in the Brazil Journal

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 I was interviewed for the Brazil Journal by Giuliano Guandalini. The interview was conducted in English, but appears in Portuguese. We disc...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Surrogacy in Spain is hard to suppress

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  In a widely reported story, a Spanish celebrity has become the surrogate mother of her grandchild, with the help of sperm from her decease...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Will Italy criminalize foreign surrogacy?

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 It's hard to ban something that people want and need and is legally available in other jurisdictions, but it looks like Italy might try...