AUSTRALIAN couples are paying huge amounts to overseas surrogates to fulfil their dreams of having a family, some risking jail in doing so, fuelling calls for surrogacy laws in Australia to be overhauled.
New figures indicate the number of Australian couples travelling overseas - to India, the United States, Thailand and Canada - to have children through surrogacy has tripled in three years. Most of the couples enter commercial surrogacy deals - typically worth between $50,000 and $150,000 - that would be illegal in Australia.
According to Surrogacy Australia, a Melbourne-based advocacy group for parents using surrogacy, a survey of 14 surrogacy agencies overseas this year found the number of babies born on behalf of Australians jumped from 97 in 2009 to 269 last year. Already, 254 Australian surrogate babies have been born this year, the group says.
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Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/hundreds-pay-for-overseas-surrogacy-20120602-1zp1u.html#ixzz1wpMpSRLJ
New figures indicate the number of Australian couples travelling overseas - to India, the United States, Thailand and Canada - to have children through surrogacy has tripled in three years. Most of the couples enter commercial surrogacy deals - typically worth between $50,000 and $150,000 - that would be illegal in Australia.
According to Surrogacy Australia, a Melbourne-based advocacy group for parents using surrogacy, a survey of 14 surrogacy agencies overseas this year found the number of babies born on behalf of Australians jumped from 97 in 2009 to 269 last year. Already, 254 Australian surrogate babies have been born this year, the group says.
For Surrogacy Service please contact Weecare Surragacy USA
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/hundreds-pay-for-overseas-surrogacy-20120602-1zp1u.html#ixzz1wpMpSRLJ
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