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STATEMENT FROM THE NHS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
For immediate release: 29 May 2008
Ref: 08052901
Twin girls were born at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton earlier this month by emergency caesarean section.
Shortly after birth, the babies were transferred to a unit in Birmingham closer to where their parents live.
The parents are visiting their daughters whilst they are being cared for in hospital and are attentive to their needs.
For patient confidentiality reasons, the identity of the family and the babies are not being disclosed. The identity of the hospital is also not being disclosed.
We are not aware of a referral to social services. |
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Leading fertility patient organisations call for urgent changes to surrogacy law |
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill started its journey through the House of Commons yesterday (Monday), and leading fertility patient organisations are calling for the government to look again at the issue of surrogacy law.
"Patients conceiving through surrogacy suffer serious legal difficulties" says leading fertility law expert Natalie Gamble of solicitors Lester Aldridge, speaking on behalf of Surrogacy UK, COTS, Infertility Network UK, the Progress Educational Trust, the Donor Conception Network and Fertility Friends UK "and the government need to address this urgently while the HFE Bill is going through."
Surrogacy patients suffer in a range of areas. For one thing, a mother has no right to maternity leave if she conceives a child through surrogacy, and so cannot take time off work after the birth to care for her newborn baby without risking losing her job.
"The government's stance seems to be that too few babies are born through surrogacy to warrant special provision being made for them, but this doesn't help those patients who are caught by this very difficult situation" says Carol O'Reilly, head of Surrogacy UK.
Another problem is that surrogacy patients are only able to store their own eggs or embryos for a very short period of time. Extended storage regulations were put in place to help women who face infertility as a result of things like cancer treatment, and allow them to preserve their own eggs or embryos for many years to enable them to start a family later in life. However, they specifically don't apply to women who need the help of a surrogate mother to carry their child.
"It is utterly arbitrary that the rules benefit women who have had their ovaries removed after cancer, but not those who have had hysterectomies" says chief executive of Infertility Network UK, Clare Brown.
Finally, patients going abroad for treatment get the raw end of the deal from parenthood rules which were put in place to benefit patients having treatment with donor eggs or sperm.
"When a child is born to a surrogate mother, the surrogate is the legal mother and her husband is the legal father, even if the surrogate is carrying the biological embryo of both intended parents" explains solicitor Natalie Gamble. "This can cause enormous problems, particularly in cases involving foreign surrogates, where a child could potentially be left stranded in a foreign country with the British parents unable to bring him or her home."
Natalie has been working with the fertility patient organisations to try and bring these issues to the attention of the Department of Health. "The initial response has not been entirely supportive" says Natalie "and we are attending a meeting with civil servants later this week to try and persuade them to amend the HFE Bill before it is too late."
Sarah Norcross, Director of the Progress Educational Trust says: "We need to get surrogacy law right while we have the chance. Otherwise we may be waiting another twenty years for another opportunity to review it. Surrogacy is no longer an exotic rarity we can afford to ignore, and the law need to be fit for the realities of the twenty-first century."
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
The director of an online for profit sperm bank catering mainly for lesbians and single women has been sentenced to 16 months in prison and disqualified from acting as a director for five years after pleading guilty to five offences including fraud, forgery and perjury.
John Gonzales was the founder of Mannotincluded.com Ltd, which arranged for the delivery of fresh sperm to women registering with its website. After initial financial success, the company entered liquidation in December 2004 with debts of more than £220,000.
Investigators found that Gonzales later lied to officials, forged documents and falsified debts in order to avoid handing over his assets and to continue trading under a different name.
Sentencing was handed down today at Wood Green Crown Court following an investigation and prosecution by the Department for Business and Enterprise (BERR).
BERR Minister Pat McFadden said:
"The Government is determined to crack down on cheats who profit by deception. When someone lies about their assets they are effectively stealing from honest creditors who are owed money and who can suffer as a result.
"This prosecution sends a clear message to would-be fraudsters that they won’t get away with it."
Passing sentence, Her Honour Judge May QC said:
"Being a company director is a serious responsibility; people who abuse this position must expect to be punished."
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