Natalie has written a comment piece published in today's Guardian. Responding to the birth of Elton John's son, through surrogacy in California, and hot on the heels of our recent High Court decision granting parenthood to a British couple who had entered into a...
By Robin McKie, science editor, The Observer, Sunday 28 March 2010 Changes to legislation will recognise growing trend for same-sex couples to become parents, say campaigners. Gay male couples will be able to use a fast-track route to become the legal parents of...
Parents through surrogacy must apply to court for a ‘parental order’ after their child is born, making them the legal parents and extinguishing the status of their surrogate mother. Under the current law only married couples can apply, but Parliament decided last year...
The London Evening Standard has covered the lack of rights to maternity leave for mothers who have a child through surrogacy, and Natalie Gamble is quoted (read the Evening Standard article ‘Women who use surrogates in fight to claim maternity leave’). This is just...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the Department of Health's consulation on updates to the parental order regulations. Explaining what is in the proposed new regulations, the article looks at the parental order system as a whole and...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the new embryo storage regulations. Originally planned as a call on the government to amend the proposed new regulations to ensure that a group of precious embryos were not excluded from the new rights...
We welcome the Department of Health’s announcement today that embryos which exceed their five year storage period before 1 October 2009 will not now have to be destroyed (article in the Times today). We have been in contact with the Department of Health on this issue...
Natalie Gamble was quoted in the Sunday Times on 5 July (and in the Daily Mail on 6 July) on problems raised by the government’s proposed new embryo storage laws. Fertility law allows people facing medical treatment which will make them infertile to store eggs, sperm...
Natalie Gamble was delighted to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Friday 19 June 2009 on the subject of surrogacy. The item, chaired by Jennie Murray, looked at the rights of commissioning mothers to leave from work following the birth of a child through...
Natalie has written article for the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online about international surrogacy. Following the leading case of Re X and Y (2008) - the first in which a UK court has granted legal parenthood to parents who entered into a commercial surrogacy...