Inconceivable

Children born after commercial surrogacy abroad may be stateless and parentless

The motives of two women who decided to become parents in their late sixties “would seem to have been entirely self-centred, with no thought as to the long-term welfare of the resulting children”, the president of the High Court family division said in a judgment published yesterday.

Sir Andrew McFarlane had been astonished to learn that the couple had n…