Ms Georgina Roberts:

Hi everyone. I thank both Ms Baldwin and Ms Rowley-Smith for their comments. I fully back them. It is interesting to hear different experiences because Ms Rowley-Smith did not know and Ms Baldwin did and had lots of people around her who were born through surrogacy.

I had a slightly different experience in that I knew from very early on but did not know anyone else, other than my half-brother, who was born through surrogacy. I also recall attending the AGMs with all my surrogate family so I suppose I did not mix with the other children so much because it was a time for me to mix with my half-siblings. I would like to reassure everyone in the room that when people are told from an early age about being born through surrogacy we do not need counselling because of that, because we are just told and it is normalised.

I absolutely take Ms Rowley-Smith's point that counselling was really important for her because she had a different experience, but just to reassure people that when one has an experience where it is normalised from the beginning and one knows from day 1 then one does not need counselling because of that. It is just like being told one has a brother or sister. It is just one's family and that is just how it is and that does not damage anybody.