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Who are my parents? Why New Zealand’s 'creaky' surrogacy laws are overdue for major reform

  • Written by Debra Wilson, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury
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Children born through surrogacy are much wanted and much loved. Under the current law, however, they can spend at least their first months of life in a kind of legal limbo.

This is because of the way several separate pieces of legislation cover the two types of surrogacy: gestational, where the child is not genetically related to the...

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