23 Mar, 2018
What happens when fertility clinics get legal parenthood wrong?
If you are an unmarried couple conceiving with donor sperm at a fertility clinic in the UK, then you rely on your clinic both to provide good medical care and
16 Sep, 2016
Continuing problems with legal parentage for couples having donor sperm treatment at UK fertility clinics
Further to our blog last September about administrative errors made by IVF clinic there have been another run of declaration of parentage cases, nicknamed the “Alphabet” cases, before the President
08 Jan, 2016
What happens when a couple with frozen embryos divorces?
In a recent Californian case, a judge ordered that a divorced couple’s frozen embryos should be destroyed. The embryos were created after the ex-wife, Lee’s, diagnosis of breast cancer, as
04 Feb, 2015
Parliament votes to allow ‘three person’ IVF to eradicate mitochondrial disease
The UK Parliament decided yesterday to change the law to allow a new kind of fertility treatment, which involves groundbreaking scientific techniques to prevent mitochondrial disease. The decision marks the
02 Oct, 2014
Surrogacy transformed my life, but is it morally acceptable?
In 2011, the NGA team helped Alice Jolly and her husband to complete their family through US surrogacy after an incredibly difficult journey of repeated miscarriages and stillbirth. Alice is a novelist
15 Mar, 2013
International surrogacy – UK High Court judge awards parenthood to non-British gay dads
The decision in Re A & B (Parental Order: Domicile) represents another landmark ruling for NGA – a parental order having been granted to a non-British gay couple following the
07 Sep, 2012
NGA part of HFEA National Donation Strategy Group
The UK’s regulator of fertility treatment, the HFEA, undertook a wide ranging public consultation last year, which looked at the barriers and motivations to egg and sperm donation in the
13 Dec, 2011
President of the High Court Family Division endorses international surrogacy
Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the High Court Family Division, has made public his decision to give parenthood to the British parents of twins born through surrogacy in India. The
21 Oct, 2011
An interesting perspective on the HFEA’s decision from the USA
We thought some of you may be interested in this response to the HFEA’s decision from Julie Shapiro in the USA, who writes an excellent blog on assisted reproduction law at
23 Aug, 2011
UK Donor Link threatened with closure
We are dismayed and alarmed by news that funding may be withdrawn from UK Donor Link, an organisation which provides vital support to donor conceived people conceived in the UK
