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40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?

40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?

Update: 2025-09-04
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This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks 40 years since the UK introduced dedicated legislation to govern surrogacy, and explores whether and how this law might be updated.

The discussion is chaired by Sarah Norcross (Director of PET), with contributions from:

⚫ Kim Cotton (founder of Childlessness Overcome Through Surrogacy)

⚫ Sarah Jones (Chief Executive of Surrogacy UK)

⚫ Paul Morgan-Bentley (Head of Investigations at The Times)

⚫ Professor Kirsty Horsey (Professor of Law at Loughborough University)

⚫ Natalie Sutherland (Partner at the International Family Law Group)

⚫ Dr Katherine Wade (Principal Investigator at the Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law project)

PET is grateful to the British Fertility Society and CooperSurgical for supporting this discussion.

PET is also grateful to Jon Nicoll, who created the opening and closing music for its podcast.

Register at https://www.progress.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/ for upcoming PET events.
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40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?

40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?

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