The Creation of the Surrogacy Register: A New Dawn for Children’s Rights in Relation to Origin Information?

This chapter examines the proposed surrogacy register, a new system for storage of and access to origin information for children born through surrogacy. It analyses the information that would be collected, the age/circumstances where access to information would be permitted, birth certificate notification of surrogacy conception, access to information by children of the surrogate and information sharing between children born of the same surrogate. It argues that, while many of the recommendations evidence a children’s rights-based approach, there is a lack of clarity regarding the information that it is envisaged would be collected and that further measures could have been taken to disincentive the use of anonymous gamete donors/surrogates in the context of international surrogacy.