Dr. Lydia Bracken:

In the proposed Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017, I do not think that everyone's interests are adequately protected. If, however, amendments were made to that and we were to rethink the model of parentage proposed, to focus more on a pre-conception model, to include provisions to recognise cases of international surrogacy and to include the retrospective provisions to recognise children who have already been born through surrogacy, we can construct a new Bill that would adequately protect the rights of the child, the rights of the surrogate and the rights of the intended parents.