Dr. Mary Wingfield:

I do not have experience of surrogacy clinics in general. The rights of the child to know their genetic identity are very important and it will be very easy to see if that is possible in some countries and not in others. In terms of talking to a clinic, if we were shipping embryos or eggs abroad, we have to get records from the clinic we are sending them to. We can see very quickly whether they have good procedures or not in their laboratories. Many questions are easy to ask clinics, such as what their guidelines are regarding surrogacies, whether there is an age limit, whether they accept a 16-year-old as a surrogate and whether a surrogate has to have had a previous pregnancy. We can find out if they have any counselling. You will never be able to find it all out. If you contact anybody online about any kind of service, you will often get a sense of whether they know what they are talking about and whether they are running a good service or not.