UniversalSurrogacyAbolition

Here is the text of the Declaration of Casablanca for the universal abolition of surrogacy, which was signed on Friday mars 3 by 100 experts from 75 nationalities. #SurrogacyAbolition #Stopsurrogacy ✔️In English, Spanish and French declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org

Press Release - June 22, 2026 Experts of the Casablanca Declaration welcome a historic moment: States commit to a Joint Declaration towards the universal abolition of surrogacy sshzu.mjt.lu/nl3/lIk16tmqVW…

Surrogacy is a form of violence against mothers. Thank you @UNSRVAW !

@UNSRVAW Thank you Reem!

I am pleased to share the advanced edited version of my upcoming report to #HRC62 which I will present on 22nd of June 2026 on violence against mothers (A/HRC/62/49): ohchr.org/sites/default/…

@maurel_olivia : « Dans toute société démocratique, les droits de l'enfant doivent primer sur les projets des adultes »: genethique.org/olivia-maurel-…

Les experts de Casablanca saluent la tribune portée par la ministre @auroreberge, confirment que la #GPA éthique n'existe pas et envoient leurs propositions législatives aux parlementaires pour renforcer notre législation aujourd'hui contournée et menacée declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org/fr/les-experts…

Preorder your copy of Olivia Maurel's book, In Search of My Mother: The poignant testimony of a woman born through surrogacy spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781922… @maurel_olivia

Alors que certains veulent rouvrir le débat sur la GPA, voir des personnalités de gauche et de droite signer ensemble une tribune affirmant que la GPA « éthique » n'existe pas est un signal fort. C'est exactement l'esprit de la @CasaDeclaration que je représente : dépasser les clivages pour défendre les femmes et les enfants. Merci notamment à @davidlisnard et @laurossignol d'avoir le courage de tenir la ligne sur ce sujet. Il reste un grand espoir pour la France : maintenir le cap comme une grande nation qui protège les plus vulnérables plutôt que de les livrer au marché. En avant pour 2027. ouest-france.fr/societe/famill…

Face à l'annonce de Gabriel Attal sur la GPA, Olivia Maurel — née par #GPA et porte-parole de la Déclaration de Casablanca — a rappelé une réalité essentielle : la « GPA éthique » n’existe pas. Donnez-nous les moyens de protéger les femmes et les enfants : bit.ly/49SmVqM

Dans cette affaire de GPA au Canada, le procureur général dénonce un interdit devenu « théorique et illusoire ». Exactement ce que nous dénonçons depuis des années. genethique.org/un-interdit-th…

@UNSRVAW was also invited to talk during the conference!

Today our spokesperson @maurel_olivia at the conference held on surrohacy in The Hague, Netherlands. “I was not adopted after abandonment. I was planned for abandonment before I was even conceived.”

@maurel_olivia “The industry calls it reproductive freedom. For many women, it is economic coercion wrapped in the language of choice.”

@maurel_olivia “We do not allow people to sell organs because desperation destroys genuine consent. Women’s bodies deserve the same protection.”

@maurel_olivia "There is no international right to have a child, but children do have rights that have to be protected at all costs".

@maurel_olivia “A contract should never determine who gets a baby.”

@maurel_olivia “Children are not entitled to parents. Adults are not entitled to children.”

@maurel_olivia “The surrogacy industry does not erase inequality. It monetizes it.”

@maurel_olivia “Every surrogacy contract begins with a promise: the child will be separated from the woman who gives birth.”

👩‍👧 What does it mean to be a mother in today's world — and how can law and policy better protect and support mothers? On June 3️⃣, Ordo Iuris and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw are hosting an international conference: "Motherhood in the 21st Century: Support and Protection Policy in the Face of Challenges and Threats." Topics will span legal protections for mothers, the ethics and law of surrogacy, and the cultural affirmation of motherhood. 📖 Simultaneous interpretation between English and Polish will be provided. 🎧 The event will bring together politicians, legal scholars, demographers, and social policy experts from Poland and beyond 🌍 — including @jerzKwasniewski of the Ordo Iuris Institute, @AgataLupomeska, Member of Council on Family and Demography @prezydentpl, MP @KarinaBosak, MEPs @MarlenaMalag and @j_wisniewska, as well as international speakers such as @maurel_olivia, Spokesperson of the @CasaDeclaration, Bettina Roska (@RosBettina81) of @ADFIntl, @DrCalumMiller, a medical doctor, ethicist and philosopher at the University of Oxford, Bernard Garcia Larrain (@GarciaLarrain), Advisor to the Minister of Family Affairs in Chile, alongside UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem (@UNSRVAW). Registration is open — don't miss it! 🔗 ordoiuris.pl/en/events/moth…

“I almost died during pregnancy.” So the solution is… finding another woman to take the risk instead? Surrogacy is not eliminating the violence of pregnancy and childbirth. It is outsourcing it to another woman, usually one with less money and less power. Your trauma does not create a right to rent someone else’s body and buy yourself a child. Stop surrogacy.