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Article: Tighter laws planned on surrogate mothers

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June 12, 1997
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Expenses paid to surrogate mothers could be capped following an independent review of surrogacy law announced by the Government yesterday.

The health minister Tessa Jowell said that a team of three experts will investigate whether a body should be set up to regulate the arrangements made by childless couples with women who agree to bear their children.

Ms Jowell's move follows outrage over the recent case of Karen Roche, who was thought to have received about pounds 12,000 from a Dutch couple to carry their child. She claimed she had an abortion because she did not think the couple were suitable parents but finally admitted she was keeping the baby. At the time Ruth Deech, chairman of the ...

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