Dr. Kirsty Horsey:

That is something that is in thelLaw commissions' provisional proposals. Although they are proposing an automatic legal parenthood at birth for the intended parents if all of the pathway has been followed and the checks and balances taken in the pre-birth process have been met, there is a co-proposal that that should be subject to the surrogate retaining the right to object for a period. This co-proposal is yet to be fully recognised, but the commissions have suggested a period of two weeks during which she would have to state publicly that she did not give her consent to the intended parents becoming the parents. It would not necessarily be the case that she wants to keep the child, only that she does not believe that the intended parents should be the parents.