Launched in 2019. Here to fight against UK proposals on law reform and raise awareness of the darker side of #surrogacy.
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"At 35 weeks I lost the baby and my womb. I ended up losing 3 litres of blood and needed an emergency hysterectomy. This is what can happen." This was a UK surrogacy arrangement in a family and the woman thought she was helping. This woman now considers herself lucky to be alive.
Made it to the Front Page in the @Telegraph alongside our co-campaigners @SurrogConcern today!
We're thrilled to see #surrogacy get this level of exposure.
Read the full article here: "Surrogacies double in decade" by @lauradonnlee and @tjsigsworth
telegraph.co.uk/gift/acb2616…
Today we are quoted in @Telegraph as they reveal parental orders for surrogate born children have almost doubled in the past decade.
The number of people pursuing surrogacy abroad is soaring: @DHSCgovuk this should be banned.
Commissioning parents can be found even in the most unlikeliest of places.
This woman is a practising OBGYN.
“We did six embryo transfers to two different surrogates…so we changed the plan but not the dream. Donor eggs and a surrogate.”
We make that at least four different women exploited by a female Dr specialising in female reproductive health, pregnancy and childbirth.
We are proud to collaborate with our co-campaigners internationally, particularly where a similar, so-called ‘altruistic’ or ‘expenses only’ model operates (such as Canada and Australia).
Working collectively we are bringing the dark truths of #surrogacy to the forefront.
Watch this space, there is much more to come in 2027!
L'Observatoire 🇨🇦 de la grossesse pour autrui SOS-GPA consacre une page aux Forums de la GPA !
Les forums sont une collaboration entre la @CIAMS_Coalition et @WombsNotForRent
Si vous avez manqué les webinaires, vous pouvez vous reprendre ici ⬇️
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This single man from America bought not one baby but two, from a woman in Mexico.
He paid $70,000 and the mother received an “additional bonus for carrying twins”. This was a double embryo transfer so twins - a boy and a girl - were the ultimate objective, despite the additional risk for an already risky #surrogacy pregnancy.
In his post reviewing the agency who facilitated this transaction, he thanks the mother but recommends removing her name from the birth certificate.
These newborns were removed from their mother at birth and were in the US with passports and identity documents within 16 days.
These babies will never know their mother.
ALT Single commissioning father wears a blue hospital gown, cap and mask holding two newborn babies, wrapped in blue blankets, one in each arm.
Please RSVP by 7pm tomorrow evening to attend the UK launch of “In Search of My Mother” by @maurel_olivia.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us for an evening with wine, nibbles and honest conversation.
📅 Thursday 12 November 6–8pm
📍 The Owl Bookshop, 207-209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2JU
To attend the Book launch for 'In Search of My Mother' by @maurel_olivia next week please RSVP to:
📩 stopsurrogacynowuk@gmail.com by
Tuesday 10th November
Here's our weekly round up of news in #surrogacy - it’s good and bad!
🇰🇿🇬🇪 Kazahkstan & Georgia - An investigation exposed agencies ‘recruiting’ (trafficking) Kazakh women for surrogacy in Georgia.
qumash.kz/news/sdam-matku-v-…
🇨🇴 Colombia - Congress is set to debate a bill that would prohibit surrogacy.
ewtnnews.com/world/americas/…
🇮🇳 India - Police in Hyderabad have detained a man accused of luring young women for their eggs, which were allegedly sold on at inflated prices.
thehansindia.com/news/cities…
🇲🇹 Malta - A Labour MP says there is no govt mandate for surrogacy, but argues that a debate must begin. (Romilda Zarb has previously positioned surrogacy as a fertility treatment.)
independent.com.mt/articles/…
🇪🇸 Spain - the Supreme Court has ruled against the automatic recognition of parental rights via Ukrainian surrogacy contracts.
codigo-civil.es/sts-1655-202…
Last month, along with our co-campaigners in Ireland, we wrote to the Irish Joint Committee on Health about the #surrogacy:
“We therefore ask the Committee whether the Amendment Bill will bar from surrogacy any person convicted, in Ireland or abroad, of a sexual offence,
an offence against a child or trafficking …Additionally we ask the Board what the assessment consists of in relation to the safeguarding of children, how it will ensure that no woman abroad was recruited through coercion or the abuse of her vulnerability and whether it will publish its members' declarations of interests.”
The Chairperson of the Authority replied on 13 October but failed to address our questions.
Read the letter here:
abolition-ms.org/en/news/ire…
@TheCountessIE @NotAllGays @WomensSpaceIre @NaturalWomensIE @CIAMS_Coalition
Portia Zwicker is a founding member of the National Surrogate Alliance and serves on the Standards Committee for the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS). You don't have to join as a member in order to become an agency in America.
This Surrogate Mother, who has had two children for other people, despite wanting to uphold the rules, is reluctant to even make a complaint to SEEDS. This reluctance speaks volumes.
This self-regulating organisation has no teeth but a reluctance to uphold even their existing standards and swiftly remove members who break the rules - or when the rules are "not followed" (even the language is weak) - suggests a half-hearted approach at best.
This lack of conviction towards their own 'standards' comes from the people trying to instil 'ethics' into the Baby Trade in America.
We can save them the trouble, #surrogacy can never be ethical.
seedsethics.org
We also note the casual dismissal of the loss of a fallopian tube or an ovary and the financial incentives women are given to sign legal documents or when they pass ‘medical clearance’.
The above video has been edited for brevity but the full video can be found here:
tiktok.com/@newyorksurrogate…
@CBCnetwork @JenniferLahl @kal_fell
“there are concerns about how to ensure that researchers are obtaining proper informed consent from parents who may be desperate to save their babies.”
Worth a read ⬇️
“The advent of an artificial womb raises all kinds of questions, Ravitsky says: “What’s a fetus, what’s a baby, what’s a newborn, what’s birth, what’s viability?” These questions have ethical implications, but also legal ones. “If we don’t start thinking about it now, we’re going to have lots of blind spots,” she says.”
technologyreview.com/2023/09…
Our first blog in German!
Read "Laws for some, loopholes for others" by our Founder @lexington1920 on the politicians circumventing national laws to obtain a child from #surrogacy abroad.
(The English version is coming soon.)
#Leihmutterschaft
#StopSurrogacy
#Unverkäuflich
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Gesetze für die einen, Schlupflöcher für die anderen
Lexi Ellingsworth von „Stop Surrogacy Now UK“ zu Jens Spahn und anderen, die unter Umgehung nationaler Gesetze durch Leihmutterschaft zu einem Kind gekommen sind.
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This person here commissioning a baby appears to believe he or she has not just ownership of the child, but of the woman being implanted as well. Count how many times the word ‘my’ appears…
We must challenge this industry that perpetuates entitlement over women’s bodies and allows ownership of a (potential) child through the provision of gametes.
Women are not wombs for hire and babies are not products to order.
This is #surrogacy.
ALT Screenshot from Surrogacy Agency Reviews Facebook group of a commissioning parent complaining than the agency has used an image of an embryo transfer involving the woman who has been paid to carry a baby. The complaint centres around ownership and whether using this image is unreasonable.
Join us for an evening with wine, nibbles and honest conversation.
📅 Thursday 12 November 6–8pm
📍 The Owl Bookshop, 207-209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2JU
To attend the Book launch for 'In Search of My Mother' by @maurel_olivia next week please RSVP to:
📩 stopsurrogacynowuk@gmail.com by
Tuesday 10th November
“The surrogacy agency has not provided any explanation for why we haven’t been able to achieve a successful pregnancy”.
This single man in his 40s complains that the baby he ordered hasn’t been delivered yet and we notice the age of the three young mothers in Mexico who were implanted with the donor conceived embryos.
This is #surrogacy.
We are reminded of Nathan Chan who went through 9 women (3 different women for their eggs and 6 different women for their wombs) for the first surrogate-born child, and more women for the second and third child.
He runs Proud Fertility in Canada:
“I think that, regardless of whether you're single or if you're older or if you're HIV positive or maybe you're experiencing secondary infertility, that you have every right to become a parent," he said.”
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/c…
xitter.twitterapi.xyz/wombsnotforrent/status…
More on Nathan Chan and his #surrogacy and #eggdonation business in Canada where only 'altruistic' surrogacy can take place legally.
xitter.twitterapi.xyz/WombsNotForRent/status…
At the time of this podcast, Paris Hilton had purchased two children, a boy first, then a girl.
Hilton and husband Reum Carter planned to have 2 women pregnant at the same time so they would have ‘twiblings’ but one woman had a miscarriage, however they moved quickly and implanted another woman. The children are 10 months apart.
Meghan Trainor took delivery of her purchase on January of this year, a girl, and, according to this, may have plans for another girl as she has two boys (but she gave birth to her sons herself).
The sex selection of embryos is possible in #surrogacy and some would simply call this #familyplanning 🤷🏼♀️
Though invisible here, the mother of these twins has shared that she experienced kidney problems that required hospitalisation and she had an emergency caesarean due to premature birth which is common in #surrogacy (the twins were born 7 weeks early).
As Locke details, the babies both had extremely low birthweights (also common in surrogacy). Mother Bex Ward has spoken on feeling guilty that she had been unable to carry the babies for longer. In an effort to help the couple even further she expressed breast milk.
The heartache he refers to may be the failed attempts and miscarriages. Previous attempts were made in America where the surrogate mother was paid and a "smoking hot" woman was chosen and paid for her eggs. Bex, who made initial contact with the couple via Instagram, also had a miscarriage.
Have any of the details above made the final edit for @CBeebiesHQ?
“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.
Following Christian, Emma* also speaks out. Like Christian, she also didn’t consent to the transfer of her parental rights and is now locked in an ongoing, expensive legal battle for her son.
“Now opposed to surrogacy, she speaks out against the illusions of an "altruistic gift" and the human consequences of a practice she herself once chose.”
France bans this harmful practice but Emma* felt a sense of duty as a former LGBT ally to help.
“I wanted to rectify an injustice of nature: the fact that a couple of men cannot have a child together. That is why I agreed to break the law.”
Due to her autism Emma* is “inclined to believe everything she is told, as she cannot detect lies.” A formerly committed activist, she acknowledges having “blinded herself” by consuming only content that favored surrogacy. “It was like a mental algorithm - hearing only what I wanted to hear.”
More than ever we must tell truth about #surrogacy, so women like Emma and Christian are not caught in a trap of lies and risk.
With thanks to @mathildeklotgen at @Valeurs on this in depth article.
valeursactuelles.com/societe…
We’re so thrilled to see this interview with Christian which shines a light on the reality of #surrogacy.
“I feel like I signed a contract with Satan and I sold my soul away when I did this because it has been nothing but hell since the moment I started taking those injections till this very moment right now.”
Surrogate mothers are speaking up and when one woman bravely steps forward, more follow. Christian now advocates against this harmful practice and invites contact from women who also have regret, please get in touch with @supprt90668 and watch the full interview from @EWTNews
also featuring @kal_fell from @CBCnetwork.
youtu.be/O3RSp4LsY3A?is=nves… xitter.twitterapi.xyz/supprt90668?s=11
Here’s our weekly round up of news in #surrogacy:
🇵🇭 Philippines - the Department of Justice warns that surrogacy schemes targeting financially vulnerable women are an emerging threat.
tribune.net.ph/2026/10/31/do…
🇰🇭 Cambodia - police uncovered a suspected illegal #humanteafficking operation in Phnom Penh, detaining four Vietnamese women and a Chinese woman. Medical supplies and medication were seized.
phnompenhpost.com/national/c…
🇳🇬 Nigeria - calls are growing for legislation covering IVF, surrogacy and egg donation, leaving women exposed to exploitation through the normalisation.
guardian.ng/news/infertility…
🇹🇼 Taiwan - a Chinese influencer was deported and fined for disseminating information about surrogacy services. Advertising surrogacy in Taiwan is illegal.
ua.news/en/dovkolo-svitu/tai…
🇺🇸 USA - a same-sex couple files a human rights complaint as it took 5 weeks and approx $6,000 to have both men recognised as the legal parents. Under Manitoba law, the woman who gives birth is the mother. The couple argues that the process is discrimination for same-sex couples and the contract should be sufficient.
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…
Here's our weekly round up of news in #surrogacy:
🇬🇧UK - an international agency has been ordered to pay a British couple $87,415. Floridian Judge Judge Thomas Ramsberger issued a default judgment against World Center Group Corp as former and current representatives failed to respond to the lawsuit. A second lawsuit alleges another commissioning parent paid $40,000+ for medical procedures in Mexico that never took place.
occrp.org/en/investigation/i…
🇺🇦 Ukraine - A woman is suspected of selling her baby for $20,000, allegedly using a fictitious surrogacy agreement to disguise the transaction. Ukraine’s Ombudsman reports that 22 children have been officially recognised as trafficking victims so far in 2026. Read the report.
zmina.info/news/v-ukrayini-v…
🇪🇺 Europol - an investigation reveals the suspected exploitation of Vietnamese women in surrogacy arrangements during an international operation involving investigators from 20 countries.
This operation identified
✅ 51 female potential victims
✅ 6 potential criminal networks & 5 suspected human traffickers identified
✅ 26 online platforms & 77 social network accounts checked
✅ 166 entities (individuals, usernames, locations, and phone numbers) checked
europol.europa.eu/media-pres…
We’re so thrilled to see this interview with Christian which shines a light on the reality of #surrogacy.
“I feel like I signed a contract with Satan and I sold my soul away when I did this because it has been nothing but hell since the moment I started taking those injections till this very moment right now.”
Surrogate mothers are speaking up and when one woman bravely steps forward, more follow. Christian now advocates against this harmful practice and invites contact from women who also have regret, please get in touch with @supprt90668 and watch the full interview from @EWTNews
also featuring @kal_fell from @CBCnetwork.
youtu.be/O3RSp4LsY3A?is=nves… xitter.twitterapi.xyz/supprt90668?s=11
Why is this relevant for a UK campaign? The man commissioning the child lived in Britain. The people pretending to be the commissioning parents in the US were actually paid associates of this man.
In addition a nanny was paid to move the child across borders to the UK and it was the UK Court that had to deal with the legal fall-out of what was called “an experiment”.
Unlike other women, Christian did not sign an NDA so she is free to speak without repercussions, but many other surrogate mothers are not in that position.
And the numbers of babies coming into the UK from international #surrogacy is increasing. See the sharp rise on this graph in the report for @womenpolicyctr.
womenpolicycentre.com/the-ca…
The courts retrospectively approve parental orders and award parental rights for babies born abroad and moved here, even when payments go far beyond ‘expenses’.
The only way forward is a Global Ban.
When babies are commissioned through #surrogacy, the separation of mother and child at birth is treated as a happy ending. The woman's pregnancy becomes a service and we are told this is progress.
The scariest part is surrogacy is increasingly presented as something to celebrate and is growing rapidly.
This harmful practice makes a woman an incubator and the baby an accessory - but motherhood is not a costume you can put on or take off.
Let's stop pretending there is nothing troubling about the baby trade that separates mothers and babies at birth.
It’s not a #HappyHalloween for everyone...