We are Surrogacy Concern: founded to expose the harms of surrogacy and egg harvesting, and to oppose the liberalisation of British surrogacy law.
Feb 19 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
We have to inform you of one of the worst international commercial surrogacy cases we have come across, involving two female commissioning parents (aged 60+ and 70+) who reside in the UK.
Judgement in full below, which we strongly urge you to read. judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
Two women in their 60s and 70s went to Northern Cyprus, where surrogacy is illegal, four years ago and had embryos implanted in to two Ukrainian surrogate mothers.
They paid £120,000 to the agency.
Neither child is genetically related to either female commissioning parent.
Feb 7 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵This is an appalling story: women trafficked from Thailand to Georgia where they were subjected to forced egg harvesting.
This is, sadly, not the first case of forced egg harvesting we have come across. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
When people travel around the world to undertake gestational surrogacy and/or buy cheap "donor" eggs there is no way of knowing if the women have been trafficked unless you have a well established relationship.
The explosion of surrogacy and egg donation is increasing demand.
Feb 3 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Our critics seem to think we are bad faith actors, campaigning against surrogacy because of "perceived threats to societal stability posed by non-traditional families, as a means of reaffirming the hegemony of the nuclear family and the heteronormative social order"
Not at all: as feminists on the centre left we really don't care what shape a family takes -providing the children are loved, well cared for and safe.
But we recognise the mother/baby dyad is a unique bond (that's scientific fact, not "conservativism") which shouldn't be erased.
Jan 26 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We cannot state strongly enough how dangerous this is.
Production of in vitro derived gametes (artificial eggs & sperm derived from skin cells) is imminent.
We are hugely worried about this and raised the alarm with @SciTechgovuk @DHSCgovuk this summer.
Allowing the potential creation of human children from artificially generated sperm and egg cells from the skin of potentially more than two parents is dangerous and unethical.
