Surrogacy is the method where a woman (a surrogate) carries a child for another person(s) who are the commissioning or intending parents due to a prior arrangement that the child would be handed over at birth.

Surrogacy has helped a lot of women who are unable to carry a pregnancy, this practice has saved many women from the pressure of bearing children.

Here are five stories from the world on surrogacy from around the world.

New Zealand

New Zealand’s surrogacy laws require change. Most children born out of surrogacy for the first few years of their lives are in legal limbo.

Read more here; https://theconversation.com/who-are-my-parents-why-new-zealands-creaky-surirogacy-laws-are-overdue-for-major-reform-166745

India

The pandemic is pushing more women in India to surrogacy. The economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic made more women indulge in surrogacy. 

Read more here; https://m.timesofindia.com/india/pandemic-pushing-more-women-into-surrogacy/amp_articleshow/85854494.cms

The United Kingdom

New figures show that the number of parents having a baby using a surrogate in England and Wales quadrupled in the last 10 years.

Read more here; https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-58639955.amp    

The United States of America

Reviewer Leslie Feplerin says the comedy “Together Together”  suffers a little from being too polite, as a comedy, it lacks snarl, and as a drama, it lacks, well, event.

Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/14/together-together-review-ed-helms-surrogacy-comedy-thats-a-little-over-polite

Isreal

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that same-sex couples and single men can become parents through surrogacy.

Read more here://www.bionews.org.uk/page_157893