Money motivates ‘Altruistic’ surrogacy in the U.K

U.K couples are getting around the ban on commercial surrogacy in the U.K by privately paying women to carry babies.

The Human Embryo and Fertilisation Act 1990 bans commercial surrogacy in the U.K,  and only permits altruisticl surrogacy but many are bending the law says Founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics(CORE), Josephine Quintavalle.

She said: “We have to be a little cynical about the regulations in the U.K. If somebody turns up at an I.V.F clinic in the U.K and says that they are an altruistic surrogate and say they are going to do it just for expenses there is no way somebody can look behind the scenes and see if money ever exchanged hands or what the extent of legitimate expenses were.

“So I think you will find that commercial surrogacy goes on in the U.K as well.”

Co-founder of Infertility Network Diane Allen expresses the same view saying: