Rise in overseas surrogates ‘increases risk of stateless babies’

The Guardian is reporting that the rise in overseas surrogacy is leaving children at legal risk. As prospective parents navigate different countries' laws, babies born through international surrogacy arrangements increasingly face becoming stateless—without citizenship in any nation. Experts are calling for urgent global regulation, but the effort faces major obstacles: the Hague Conference on Private International Law suspended its fifteen-year attempt at a global surrogacy convention due to divisions among member nations over how to regulate the practice.

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