Tag: Surrogacy
Calls for relaxed surrogacy laws
A parliamentary committee looking at surrogacy laws in Tasmania has recommended the regulations be relaxed.[MORE]
NSW to review surrogacy laws
A review of New South Wales' surrogacy laws will examine whether surrogate mothers should be allowed to have their expenses reimbursed.[MORE]
Call to legalise altruistic surrogacy
Families have told a public hearing in Brisbane that altruistic surrogacy should be legalised.[MORE]
Surrogacy laws under review
A young Hobart couple has told a Select Committee into Surrogacy in Tasmania of their desire to have a child of their own.[MORE]
Surrogacy laws supported in Upper House
WA families will soon be able to have children through a surrogate mother, with the Upper House supporting the bulk of the Government's legislation.[MORE]
Surrogacy change backs biological parents
A bill to recognise the biological parents of a child born to a surrogate mother has passed the Upper House of the South Australian Parliament in a conscience vote.[MORE]
Committee looks at legal implications of surrogacy
A WA Upper House committee says laws to give genetic parents legal custody of children born to surrogate mothers will be a huge breakthrough.[MORE]
Surrogacy submissions about to close
Submissions to the Tasmanian parliamentary Select Committee investigating surrogacy close this afternoon.[MORE]
Qld make moves to decriminalise surrogacy
A Queensland parliamentary committee will be set up to look at whether altruistic surrogacy should be decriminalised.[MORE]
No plans to put surrogacy IVF on Medicare
The Federal Government says it has no plans to provide Medicare funding to women who will benefit from the relaxing of laws on surrogacy and infertility treatment in Victoria.[MORE]
Conroy praises Vic plan to relax IVF, surrogacy laws
Victorian Senator Stephen Conroy has welcomed the State Government's move to relax surrogacy and IVF laws.[MORE]
Howard dismisses lesbian IVF call
Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed a Victorian report calling for greater access to reproductive treatments for lesbians and single mothers.[MORE]
Right To Life criticises reproduction reforms
Right to Life campaigners have criticised recommendations on surrogacy laws made by the Victorian Law Reform Commission.[MORE]
States 'holding childless couples hostage': Ruddock
A row is brewing between the states and the Commonwealth over surrogacy laws, with Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock accusing his counterparts of holding childless couples hostage to ideology.[MORE]
States back call for national surrogacy law
The New South Wales, Tasmanian and South Australian governments are supporting calls for uniform surrogacy laws across the country.[MORE]
Stott Despoja calls for national surrogacy laws
Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja has called for a national approach to surrogacy laws.[MORE]
Labor Senator fathers surrogate daughter
Senior Labor frontbencher Stephen Conroy and his wife have used a rare surrogacy process to have a child.[MORE]
