The UK’s Restrictive Surrogacy Laws Are Hurting Couples and Pushing Many Abroad

January 21, 2019

(CNN) – For Prior, the lack of legal security was her chief consideration in deciding to go abroad: the fact that there was a chance “that somebody would change their mind and keep the child that was destined for us.” According to law in the United States, where they sought their surrogate, “he was our child … and that’s just very, very reassuring,” she said. Gamble’s study echoes this sentiment. Parents who traveled to the United States to use a surrogate were the least likely to have encountered difficulties returning to the UK, it says.