Senator Mary Seery Kearney said her daughter Scarlett sometimes asks about how she came into the world as a surrogate baby.
The Fine Gael politician revealed she told the seven-year-old: “You might not have been born from my womb, but you were born from my heart.” Under current Irish law, Mary is not her daughter’s legal mother but all that is set to change.
The Dubliner and her husband David welcomed their much-wanted daughter through a surrogate in India in May 2015. After five miscarriages and 13 rounds of IVF, they decided to go down the surrogacy route and started the beginning of a new chapter.
