Experts Fight Surrogacy's Human Rights Abuses At Global Conference
An eclectic coalition fights this motherless baby-enabling technology because it violates the rights of both women and children.
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An eclectic coalition fights this motherless baby-enabling technology because it violates the rights of both women and children.
An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
Casablanca Declaration spokeswoman and surrogate baby Olivia Maurel recently met with Pope Francis to share their joint condemnation of the practice of surrogacy to mark the first year of the declaration’s signing.
While Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and other celebrities make headlines when surrogate mothers give birth to their children, it is much more rare to hear from the unnamed surrogate mothers themselves or the children born of surrogacy about how it affected them.
For Maurel, being born via surrogacy led to abandonment trauma, identity issues, and several suicide attempts.