We have been glad to see the backlash against surrogacy this weekend.

We welcome our new followers and know many of you are new to the cause of surrogacy abolition.

Here’s a🧵below to help you spread the word with politicians and friends. Everyone should know that surrogacy is banned in all forms in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, China, Japan and many more countries.

The US is unusual in having such a liberal commercial surrogacy operation in most states.

A truly horrifying story in @BBCNews today about a sperm donor who carries a cancer causing gene; several children conceived from his sperm are now known to have died.

Over half of donor sperm used in the UK is now imported. This is wrong for the children & completely unethical. We understand some people desperately want to be parents, but importing eggs from Argentina (yes, really) and sperm from Denmark is cruel to the donor conceived person, and is fuelling a global trade in gametes which only serves to enrich fertility clinics.

@JamesTGallagher

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.

🧵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.

🧵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.

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.

theguardian.com/science/2025/j… This is not safe. Long term impacts totally unknown.

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.

There is no safe framework. It should be banned.