Debate on Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Bill 2025 focuses on amendments, penalties, and scrutiny of clauses.

🟠 High · Bill Third Reading3 December 2025 · 21,894 words

Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Bill 2025 faces scrutiny over penalties and clause ch

Bill's penalties are lightened despite amendments, raising concerns about commercial surrogacy dange

“Although we might once have been able to say that this bill contained the toughest laws in the nation, that is not the case anymore.”

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Members who spoke

Doust, KateEhrenfeld, SimonFreeman, JulieGoiran, NickGroenewald, MarykaHofmann, MichellePettitt, BradScott, PhilipSwinbourn, MatthewThomson, NeilTwiss, PhilWalker, Brian

Topics

surrogacyreproductive technologylegislationpenaltiesamendments

Legislation Referenced

Acts

Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 Artificial Conception Act 1985 Surrogacy Act 2008

Bills

Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Bill 2025Surrogacy Bill 2007

· 3 December 2025

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Surrogacy Amendment Regulations 2021

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