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Reports that women surrogates are being kept in slave like conditions in Greece have renewed calls for a serious rethink of lax surrogacy controls. National Director of Politics for the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), Wendy Francis, said “It is an inescapable truth that vulnerable women are being exploited so that Australians can procure a baby. Not only… Read More
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A pandemic restricting world travel is the least of the problems regarding the despicable practice treating women as incubators, and babies as ‘made to order’ products. No one has a right to a child. And women and babies should never be for sale. Surrogacy is a deeply unethical business. Read More
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This is a win for common sense. It was unacceptable for the Labor government to expect parliamentarians to make far-reaching decisions on aspects of surrogacy before they even had the opportunity to study the 600-page government commissioned review. Read More
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“If the government is serious about improving surrogacy laws, the bill should include requiring criminal record checks for people wanting to access surrogacy and prohibiting residents from engaging in commercial surrogacy overseas.” Read More
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“Putting a price tag on the act of a woman carrying a child turns women into commodities and children into accessories to be bought and sold,” commented Wendy Francis, the ACL’s representative in the NT. Read More
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A bill to allow altruistic surrogacy access for single men and male same-sex couples will remove the fundamental right of a child to know their biological parents and denies the right to have a mother figure in their lives, warns the Australian Christian Lobby. Read More
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A bill to allow altruistic surrogacy access for male same-sex couples and single men will deliberately remove the rights of children to know their biological parents. The Australian Christian Lobby is concerned that this will only serve to commodify children and further exploit women. Read More
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The Australian Christian Lobby is opposed to the availability of surrogacy, including altruistic surrogacy, as the practice does not operate in the best interests of the child in ensuring that the child has the right to know and to be raised by his or her biological parents. Read More
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Surrogacy is always an emotive subject. Being childless is, for many couples, a very painful road to travel. Surrogacy if often held up as the “solution”. Read More
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Independent MP for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, has consistently been responsible for some of the worst laws in New South Wales. In 2019, Mr Greenwich introduced a bill that passed both houses later titled the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019, decriminalising abortion in the state. In 2021, he introduced the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021, which… Read More
