Surrogacy reform on the cards

MPs and peers have recommended that the law be changed to allow single persons whose gametes were used to create an embryo, where a child is born as the result of a surrogacy arrangement, to apply for a parental order of that child within six months. Currently, only couples have this right. In a report published this week on proposed amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 be amended to remedy this discrimination.