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‘There Is No Human Right to Have a Child’
At a UN event on Wednesday, Reem Alsalem said that surrogacy is “clearly responsible for inflicting large-scale violence, abuse, and exploitation on women and children.” (Alessandra Tarantino via AP Photo)
A UN official proposes a global ban on surrogacy, a multibillion-dollar industry where rules are lax and risks are high.
By Kara Kennedy
10.09.25 — International
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A top United Nations official denounced the surrogacy industry on Wednesday as “a system of exploitation and violence.” On Friday, she will recommend that the General Assembly ban it.

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, is expected to release a report concluding that the practice “violate(s) the dignity and the fr…

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Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy is a contributing writer for The Free Press and co-host of the podcast The Mom Wars. Her work has appeared in The Spectator and The Telegraph.
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