In March 2018, the Senate instigated an inquiry into the use of mitochondrial transfer which is a process of genetic manipulation to avoid the transfer of mitochondrial disease.

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”.

Happy New Year and welcome to another year at ACL.

I trust you and your family have enjoyed rest and relaxation over the Christmas period.

The ACL Team and I have benefitted from time out after a tumultuous 12 months.

The Australian Christian Lobby has condemned moves by the WA Government to remove surrogacy-law safeguards which would deliberately deprive children of their mother or father.

The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed plans by the South Australian Government to give people born from assisted reproductive techniques rights to information about their donor parents.

People around the country are raising their voices to express their sincerely held view that marriage cannot and should not be redefined. The silent majority are beginning to voice their values.

It's impossible not to be pleased for TV host, Sally Obermeder, in her obvious love for daughter Elyssa, birthed by a surrogate arrangement in the United States. 

The latest push by the fertility industry to monetise a trade in human babies, women’s eggs and create a rental market for women’s wombs in Australia needs to be resisted by federal parliamentarians, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

If you think changing the definition of marriage to remove gender is innocuous, with little impact on children or the community, think again.

Last week, a raft of ideologically-motivated rainbow legislation passed the South Australian Upper House in a pre-Christmas blitz on human dignity.