Surrogacy

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
Peter Earle
18 Pleasant Place
WISHART QLD 4122
Total Signatures - 2,034
Sponsoring Member: Chris Foley MP
Posting Date: 5/10/2009
Closing Date: 23/11/2009
Tabled Date: 24/11/2009
Responded By: Hon Cameron Dick MP on 23/12/2009
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the fact that the practice of altruistic surrogacy brings into conflict the rights of adults and children. Surrogacy is a complicated process for adults and especially for children. It entails a range of ethical concerns, including disruption of relationship links between marriage, conception, gestation, birth and motherhood, which are important human identity factors.Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to not allow children to be created through artificial reproductive technology and placed in relational constructs that deliberately deny them their biological bonds and the love, care and role modelling of both a mother and a father.