Hoorah for NGA client Yotam Ottolenghi and his wonderfully heartfelt piece in Saturday’s Guardian: Why I’m coming out as a gay father. In a brave and personal editorial, the renowned TV chef and restarauter has spoken out about his long journey to fatherhood as a gay...
In the run up to the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology’s Annual Conference, the British Infertility Counselling Association and the International Infertility Counselling Organisation gathered a group of international clinicians and counsellors, in...
Natalie was delighted to speak alongside Baroness Hale at a conference in London on 20-21 June of leading UK and international experts in donor conception and alternative reproduction. Baroness Hale of Richmond (first woman Justice of the Supreme Court, and former...
We have been working with Coronation Street on their surrogacy storyline (the first in a mainstream UK soap) which has come to a head this week, with surrogate Tina making the emotional decision about whether to hand baby Jake back to his biological parents Gary and...
Natalie was delighted to write an article for Fertility Network UK magazine about the success in our campaign to win maternity leave rights for parents through surrogacy. Explaining the government's announcement that it plans to change the law, Natalie sets out what...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has published updated guidance on the immigration procedures for UK parents who have children born through surrogacy abroad. The rules have not been changed, but they are now set out much more clearly than before. The new...
In a High Court ruling published today (a case in which we represented the parents), Mrs Justice Theis has warned parents of children born through international surrogacy that they must apply to court in the UK if they want to be the legal parents of their children....
Natalie and Helen have writte an article for We Are Family, a magazine for LGBT+ parents, about surrogacy for gay men in the UK. covering both UK and international surrogacy options the article gives a concise snappy guide to where to start if you are gay dads...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the HFEA's decision to amend its Code of Practice to cater more explicitly for those going through treatment for surrogacy in the UK. With a new set of surrogacy-specific consent forms, and clearer...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has voted to update the guidance it gives to UK fertility clinics on surrogacy. The new Code of Practice will: clarify what UK clinics should say to surrogacy patients, and update clinic procedures and forms for...