We are Surrogacy Concern: founded to expose the harms of surrogacy and egg harvesting, and to oppose the liberalisation of British surrogacy law.
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Commercial surrogacy is exploitative, cruel & treats women like brood mares.
UK ‘altruistic’ model is no better. Large sums of money changing hands, babies often not seeing their mothers again, women left with regret & birth injuries.
Stop surrogacy now.
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🇪🇸 SPAIN
A major ruling against surrogacy!
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld the refusal to register children born through surrogacy in Ukraine, reaffirming that the desire to have a child, however noble, can NEVER come at the expense of another human being’s fundamental rights.
The Court also denounced the contradiction of prohibiting surrogacy in Spain while allowing legal loopholes that enable the practice to continue abroad.
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An important story from CBC about the dangerous commodification of women's bodies - and in marked contrast to a recent offering from @BBCRadioLondon which took a wholly uncritical position on the "special journey" of egg donation. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj9…
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Egg donation is marketed as simple and risk-free. Actually, it carries serious risks, and Maggie's story of ovarian torsion, almost losing her ovaries, and aggressive cancer, should be required viewing for young women influenced by Big Fertility ads.
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Led by @CasaDeclaration and @ADFIntl, 105 organizations from 31 countries are asking States to address threats to the human rights of both women and children in all forms of surrogacy.
Read our joint letter to @PHMissionNY, which leads negotiations on the draft resolution.
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The fix is simple: delete "exploitative commercial" from OP16.
International law is clear: if a child is handed over for "remuneration or any other consideration," that’s the sale of a child.
Whether the surrogacy is deemed "exploitative" or "commercial" doesn’t change that.
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A draft UN General Assembly resolution is about to call on governments to prevent trafficking for the sale of children, including in the context of surrogacy.
But only if it’s "exploitative commercial." 🧵
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Together with @ADFIntl and the @CasaDeclaration , we brought together 105 organizations from 31 countries, including feminist groups, child rights advocates and faith-based organizations, to urge the UN to address the risks to women and children in all forms of surrogacy.
Thank you to everyone who signed our joint letter and made this possible.
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And a tip of the hat to a queen among journalists - who got word out before anyone else on grooming gangs in … The Sunday Times
Nearly 20 years ago.
Loved Andrew, and major respect to him for the sterling work he did uncovering the many, complex aspects of this atrocity, but I wrote the very first piece on it, in The Times (Sunday Times Mag to be precise), in 2007: thetimes.com/best-law-firms/…
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
With grateful thanks, every day, for the brave servicemen and women who gave their lives for our freedom.
#RemembranceSunday
This year the Government issued an overdue apology for forced adoption.
They have now advised women shouldn’t have to go to court the same day they give birth to fight for their babies.
So why then do you permit surrogacy @DHSCgovuk?
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Breaking: An independent KC has concluded files containing bereavement and medical examiners records @nottmhospitals between 2019 and 2022 were “methodically and selectively deleted and that the deletion was intentional rather than accidental.”
Expect endless coverage as Cristiano Ronaldo announces his retirement from international football.
As in this piece which focuses on the man’s ego, don’t expect anyone to mention that he has at least two children with surrogate mothers.
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This is a very welcome step @MoJGovUK
“the process of separating a mother from their baby when they have just given birth is "widely accepted as deeply traumatic for all involved"
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqy7… @AdoptionApology
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Emma Cox’s terrible story featured in my joint investigation with Channel 4 News.
The details are horrendous…
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“We’re so thankful to have these fabulous twins because it took all our time and all our heartache.”
No mention of the surrogate mother’s heartache or the fact that these two men bought babies to purposely separate them from their mother and cause them trauma at birth.
This is pure indoctrination on @CBeebiesHQ parenting channel.
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The University of Bristol is carrying out research into the experiences of women who have had instrumental birth. If you're interested in taking part, please click on the link below, or scan the QR code:
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Women poured their hearts out in their evidence to the Amos inquiry. The review team just read the AI summaries produced by Copilot. How much harm does that do to public trust in government?
The @CommonsHealth committee to write to Baroness Amos amid claims MPs were misled over her maternity review after AI tool ignored evidence of normal birth ideology.
Bill Kirkup tells Sunday Times there is a "conspiracy of silence" over the issue:
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This is deeply concerning @DHSCgovuk
The @CommonsHealth committee to write to Baroness Amos amid claims MPs were misled over her maternity review after AI tool ignored evidence of normal birth ideology.
Bill Kirkup tells Sunday Times there is a "conspiracy of silence" over the issue:
thetimes.com/article/9499fb0…
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You can read Bill Kirkup's full submission to the @CommonsHealth committee here: committees.parliament.uk/pub…
He sent it in August - only published in October. 🤔