The editorial "State needs clarity on surrogacy laws" (Feb. 14), espousing the legalization of commercial surrogacy in Minnesota, failed to do justice to the complexity and far-reaching consequences ...

Earlier this year, I was invited to discuss gestational surrogacy with dozens of the heads of women’s rights organizations looking to shape global policy. I was startled to discover I was the only ...

Conservative policy groups and feminist advocates rarely agree on what women should be allowed to do with their bodies. One side tends to defend traditional roles; the other insists on ...

Pope Francis offered one of the most clear-cut moral teachings of his pontificate Monday when the Vatican issued a document condemning gender theory, sex-change procedures, and surrogacy as morally ...

Biobanks of various kinds are proliferating. Particularly noteworthy is the expanding development of highly institutionalized, broad population–based biobanks that collect and store blood or tissue to ...

In 2018, over 100 children were born in Boise, Idaho, through surrogacy. The story behind this unique baby boom is explored in the Independent Lens documentary Made in Boise, an intimate look at how ...

With the passage of the sweeping Child-Parent Security Act (the CPSA) in April of 2020, New York catapulted from near-last in the nation to a model statute protecting families created through Assisted ...

For all their talk of human rights and equality, very few nations in the developed world have taken a critical view of the inherently exploitative practice of surrogacy. But Italy is one notable ...