Brian Tobin: Ireland’s approach to surrogacy law needs a rebirth

Ireland should follow a similar path to the UK's ongoing collaborative, robust reform process

A nurse takes care of babies born to surrogate mothers at a surrogate operation in Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

On Monday, April 26,  the British All-Party Parliamentary Group on Surrogacy published its report on the understandings of the law and practice of surrogacy, in which it recommends reform. 

Along with other experts, I had the pleasure of feeding into this law reform process during oral evidence sessions at Westminster in 2018.