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May
2025

Blog, Donor conception law, International Surrogacy Law, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern Family Law, News, Surrogacy Law

Growing Families UK & EU Surrogacy & Donor Conception Conference 2025

On 10 May 2025 Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to attend the Growing Families UK and EU Surrogacy and Donor Conception Conference 2025, together with and an industry professional networking event on 9 May 2025 in London. This conference brought together fertility, surrogacy agency, academic and legal experts from around the world, as well as past and present intended parents building families through fertility treatment, international surrogacy and donor conception. It shone a light on current surrogacy and donor conception laws, trends and practices. It also provided insight into current medical, legal, ethical, financial and practical aspects associated with these forms of family building.

02
May
2025

Blog, International Surrogacy Law, News, Surrogacy Law

Spain Cracks Down on International Surrogacy

The Spanish government has this week (1 May 2025) cracked down on international surrogacy and banned embassies and consulates from registering children born through foreign surrogacy arrangements. Whilst surrogacy is prohibited in Spain, Spanish intended parents previously got round this by entering into international surrogacy arrangements and then registering their surrogate born child abroad with the help of foreign court rulings (e.g. from the US or Canada) recognizing them as their baby's parents. Diplomats had accepted foreign court rulings and authorised the child's registration in the Spanish Civil Registry, but this has now changed following a legal ruling by Spain's Supreme Court in December 2024 which determined that this procedure was illegal.

04
Apr
2025

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, News

WEALTH: Women In Health

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the launch event of WEALTH: Women In Health in partnership with Covington & Burling LLP on 2 April 2025. Its aim is to build a powerful community of women across the full value chain of health and investment to advance the health, wealth and position of women in the world. WEALTH was created because whilst women drive approximately 80% of major healthcare decisions, women are underrepresented and underserved across the industry and this needs to change. Female founders face significant barriers to innovation, with women-led startups across Europe and the U.S. receiving just 2% of venture capital funding. There is also still little funding available for female reproductive health and unconscious bias which lies deep in society in the home, workplace and at a political level which holds women back.

02
Apr
2025

Blog, Fertility Law, Louisa Ghevaert, News

Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?

Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to attend Progress Educational Trust's event "Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?" on 26 March 2025. Fertility is continuing to decline across the globe and birth rates are steadily falling. Fertility rates are now at the lowest in the UK since World War II. As such, this event looked at a range of factors influencing declining global fertility and birth rates and debated whether fertility treatment can bridge the gap and solve population decline. It also shone a light on the need for the UK to have better policies from a fertility perspective with more impact as a number of issues are not addressed in the workplace and this is affecting women's decisions to have children.

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