Monetary compensation may or may not be involved in surrogacy arrangements.

In a third case, the birth mother expressed profound regret at having entered into a surrogacy arrangement.

Children born through surrogacy arrangements are far from commodities or accessories.

It remains illegal for Queensland residents to enter into commercial surrogacy arrangements anywhere in the world.

All surrogacy arrangements (both commercial and altruistic) are illegal.

Commercial surrogacy arrangements are not legal in the United Kingdom.

The surrogate mother in a traditional surrogacy arrangement decided to keep the resulting child.

But it estimated that nearly 4,000 children have been born in the United States through surrogacy arrangements.

But the panel, which passed its report unanimously, stopped short of calling for a total ban on surrogacy arrangements.