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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jessica Murray and Rachel Hall

Rise in overseas surrogates ‘increases risk of stateless babies’

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Surrogates normally carry pregnancies from donor eggs or the egg of someone who wishes to become a parent. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

The rise in the use of surrogates abroad is leaving more babies at risk of becoming stateless, experts have said, amid growing calls for urgent global regulation of the practice.

The warning follows the suspension of a 15-year effort by The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to establish a global surrogacy convention, which was paused due to divisions among member states.

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