European Parliament: Surrogacy is reproductive exploitation

The Italian right-wing politician Matteo Salvini initiatied a popular bill to limit surrogacy in Italy. It comes at a time of growing criticism towards these ‘wombs for hire’.

In war-torn Ukraine, we see how surrogacy can lead to parentless children. Babies are left by their surrogate mothers, but their commissioning parents are unable to pick them up. The result? Traumatised babies who are at risk of developing long term bonding problems.

In Spain, surrogacy contracts are void because they violate the fundamental rights of the surrogate mother and child, the Spanish Court of Justice ruled.