After suffering from 14 miscarriages, Rosanna Davison and her husband Wes Quirke decided to go down the surrogacy route and were overjoyed when their baby girl Sophia was welcomed into the world.
Sophia was born to a surrogate in the Ukraine in November 2019, but because this was an international surrogacy, and with the way the law works in Ireland, Rosanna is not recognised as Sophia’s biological mother.
As it stands here, surrogacy is unregulated in Irish law, and mothers of children born through surrogacy, even through gestational surrogacy in which the child is biologically theirs, have no rights to their children.
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