7/21/2023 0 Comments Gay couple lost twins![]() ![]() “That really did set us back – it is an emotional roller coaster,” says McDonagh, originally from Dublin. They considered Cambodia and Nepal but no sooner had they decided on the latter than the Himalayan country abruptly shut its surrogacy programme in September 2015. That is the thing with international surrogacy, says McDonagh, “it is so fluid – one minute it’s okay and the next minute it’s not”. They had just settled on doing it in Thailand when that country closed its programme to foreigners. ![]() Partners for nine years, Neil McDonagh and Andrew Millar used to imagine what it would be like to raise a child – “like as if it was never going to happen”, says McDonagh. Neil McDonagh (28), Andrew Millar (27) and 14-week-old Oisín Millar-McDonagh live in Belfast But here, in the run-up to a Dublin conference hosted by the international not-for-profit Families Through Surrogacy, three couples tell how they moved beyond the abstract to make surrogacy part of their life story. There are undoubtedly legal and moral issues to be debated around surrogacy. While lawmakers here have deliberated for at least 10 years over the ramifications of surrogacy, these couples can’t wait and mostly go abroad to a country that has legislated for it. But that has not deterred an increasing number of couples who see it as the only way to create their longed-for family. Surrogacy is neither legal nor illegal in Ireland because it is not yet addressed in legislation. Three families, three very different stories but one common thread – each couple has used a surrogate mother to give birth to their children.
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