We are a group of women from diverse backgrounds who are concerned at the proposals for law reform of the UK’s 1985 Surrogacy Act.

We are concerned about a number of the proposals including the removal of parental rights of the mother at birth, the minimum age of 21 for surrogate mothers and 18 for commissioning parents and the lifting of a ban on open advertising.

We are concerned further about the language used in surrogacy which erases mother and labels women as ‘surrogates‘ or ‘carriers‘ and how ‘compensation‘ and ‘expenses‘ are words used to disguise what is a payment for the purchase of a child.

Another area we campaign on is the media narrative which perpetuates the idea that the woman who gives birth is not the mother of a child, but parents commissioning the child are.