On April 3rd, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and behind closed doors in the Capitol, the state of New York voted to legalize commercial gestational surrogacy as part of the 2021 budget package. To become effective in February 2021, the new legislation will...
Michelle Reaves, a young American wife, and mother of two children, died tragically during childbirth. She was serving as a gestational surrogate for the second time for same couple. The news of Michele’s death was spread by one of her friends who set up an online...
On November 25, 2019, the Court of Appeals in Rennes, France recognized the filiation on French civil registration for four children born to surrogate women abroad. This decision is equivalent to authorizing surrogacy, even though it is prohibited by French law. This...
On December 18, 2019 the Court of Cassation ruled that children born abroad from surrogacy or ART from third-party donors may now have their foreign birth certificates recorded on French civil registry. The courts’ rulings regarded two women who had ART performed with...
In its December 12, 2019 report, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the French courts' refusal to register the entire foreign birth certificate for a surrogacy case, mentioning the “intended mother” was an appropriate measure. Two surrogacy cases were presented...
A mother wished for her deceased son’s gametes to be sent to Israel for a post-mortem surrogacy or ART, since it is allowed in this country. However this request was declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Dominique Petithory Lanzmann, the...
