The Bleak House of Surrogacy: Broidy v. St Helen's and Knowsley Health Authority |
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Authors: | Derek Morgan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Cardiff Law School, University of Wales, P.O.B. 427, Cardiff, CF10 3X7, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | This note examines the British case of Broidy v. St Helen's andKnowsley Health Authority in which Margaret Broidy was unsuccessful in anegligence action against the defendant Health Authority following an emergency caesareanoperation in which a hysterectomy had been performed as `essential'. Of particularfeminist interest is the fact that Broidy's claim for, inter alia, the costs of asurrogacy arrangement to be carried out in California was refused on the basis that it wasnot reasonable – the chances of success of the surrogacy arrangement being deemed tooremote. Set within the context of an increasingly prolific number ofworld-wide surrogacy stories, the Broidy decision is analysed as providing a recentillustration of some of the difficult implications of the reproductive option which surrogacyhas now become. |
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Keywords: | damages reproductive technologies surrogacy Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 |
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