Surrogacy plea: 'If it's legal to donate blood, then why not a uterus?'

Cathy Wheatley, centre, with her twins Ted and Elsie, 2, who were born by surrogacy in Ukraine to Ivanna Holub, pictured, with her three children Oleg 5, right, Sergii ,7 and baby Ludmilla, 6 months at the Wheatley home in Co. Wicklow. Photo: Moya Nolan

A Ukrainian surrogate mother has called on the Irish government to recognise international surrogacy.

Ivanna Holub, surrogate mother to a pair of Irish twins, said if it is legal to donate blood to save a life, it should be legal for one woman to “donate” her uterus to another to give life.