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  • Important read for all concerned about children

    Katy Faust and Stacy Manning’s book, Them Before Us, reverses the usual adult-centric conversation about marriage, family, surrogacy, adoption, reproductive technology, divorce, same-sex parenting, cohabitation and even polygamy by considering these issues from the child’s perspective and rights. Read More

  • No one exploited. Stop surrogacy now.

    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

  • WA quick to review surrogacy after same-sex marriage

    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


Related media releases…

  • 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

  • WA Labor’s Surrogacy Bill Sent To Committee

    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

  • WA Labor Surrogacy Bill Will Commodify Children

    “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

  • Commercial Surrogacy Arrives In The Northern Territory

    “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