Barend Vlaardingerbroek: Full or partial? – Getting to grips with surrogacy

2016 will hopefully see some movement in the law relating to surrogacy. There is now a review of surrogacy law in the UK, and a conference to thrash the issue out at international level is also mooted.

Surrogacy law varies enormously from place to place. Head-in-the-sand English law continues to insist that the woman who gives birth to a child “and no other woman” is the mother, and if the surrogate is married, her husband goes on the birth certificate as the father!