Natalie spoke with the ‘Talking Family Law’ podcast about surrogacy law in anticipation of the Law Commission publishing its report on law reform in 2023.
Surrogacy campaigning
NGA speaks at the PET Annual Conference – Are LGBT+ families less equal than others?
Natalie was delighted to speak at the annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust on 7 December, talking about the challenges faced by LGBT+ families as part of a panel addressing 'Are some fertility patients more equal than others?'. What is the PET annual...
NGA speaks at London conference – Future Directions of Surrogacy Law
Natalie was delighted to speak at the Future Directions in Surrogacy Law conference at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London on 30 November.
Natalie gives evidence to the Irish Parliament on international surrogacy
The Irish Parliament has been hearing evidence from a range of expert witnesses on the issue of surrogacy law reform, and Natalie was delighted to be invited as a leading expert on UK law, together with academic lawyer Dr Kirsty Horsey. After each giving a five minute...
HFEA changes surrogacy rules on exporting sperm, eggs and embryos from the UK to overseas
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has updated its guidance on exporting gametes and embryos for surrogacy, in a move which will help intended parents through international surrogacy. NGA Law and our sister organisation Brilliant Beginnings have...
Getting surrogacy families home during COVID-19 – NGA and the families we are helping in the news
On 20 March 2020 the US Passport Office closed its doors to in-person passport applications as a result of the escalating COVID pandemic, meaning that a number of our parents with newborn surrogate babies (who usually rely on the US passport to travel back to the UK)...
NGA on the BBC Today Programme today – surrogacy babies stranded due to COVID
Natalie Gamble was interviewed on this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (here at 7.14am) about the problems faced by surrogacy families in the current coronavirus crisis. Natalie spoke to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning about the crisis work we are...
NGA emergency help for international surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic is causing chaos across the board, including for UK families going through international surrogacy. Parents from the UK who are expecting a baby through surrogacy cannot cancel or defer their child’s birth. We need practical solutions for safeguarding...
Surrogacy law reform- Article published in Fertility Road
We were asked to write an article for Fertility Road magazine about the Law Commission's surrogacy law reform provisional proposals. Setting out what the proposals say, what we think, we urge any intended parents interested in surrogacy to respond to the...
Our views on the Law Commission surrogacy reform proposals
The Law Commission’s surrogacy reform consultation is a once-in-a-generation chance to get surrogacy law right. We have spent the last few months carefully considering our response, drawing on our legal and practical experience of over 1,000 surrogacy cases, as well...