On Wednesday 14 June, MEPs debated the “risks of exploitation and commercialisation” linked to the authorisation of surrogate motherhood at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg. A debate was requested by the ECR, which called on the Chamber to declare surrogate motherhood a “universal crime”.
A divided European Parliament
The group believes that the practice is based on the economic exploitation of vulnerable women and “the commodification of a child and a...