Earlier this week, Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy, claiming that the practice, which helps individuals and couples have children, exploits the women who carry them. "I deem ...

LOS ANGELES — Kayla Elliott thought she was helping a family who couldn't conceive by birthing a surrogate child for a couple in Southern California. Instead, she said, she was caught in a web of ...

A California couple’s surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious ...

Earlier this year, I was invited to discuss gestational surrogacy with dozens of the heads of women’s rights organizations looking to shape global policy. I was startled to discover I was the only ...

In March 1986, Mary Beth Whitehead and her husband went to a New Jersey hospital and kidnapped a baby girl. She had given birth to the girl three days earlier. They took the infant to Florida, ...

A new study from Canada has found women who agree to carry and birth babies in surrogacy arrangements face a higher risk of complications than other pregnant women. These women were at two to three ...