New legislation or the amendment of existing legislation was necessary to ensure mothers of surrogate babies could take maternity leave from work and receive child benefit payments, the Equality Authority has said.
Issuing its last annual report, before being merged with the Human Rights Commission, the authority highlighted the issue of the non-recognition in law of mothers of babies born to a surrogate mother.
Angela Kerins, chairwoman of the authority said it had supported three women who, though biologically the mother of their babies, were not entitled to maternity leave because they had not given birth to their babies.
“It’s terribly unfair that you have this newborn baby, that is your baby, and you can’t take maternity leave. I think the vast majority of Irish people would not want a situation like that to exist.”
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Issuing its last annual report, before being merged with the Human Rights Commission, the authority highlighted the issue of the non-recognition in law of mothers of babies born to a surrogate mother.
Angela Kerins, chairwoman of the authority said it had supported three women who, though biologically the mother of their babies, were not entitled to maternity leave because they had not given birth to their babies.
“It’s terribly unfair that you have this newborn baby, that is your baby, and you can’t take maternity leave. I think the vast majority of Irish people would not want a situation like that to exist.”
Read more ...
For Surrogacy Service
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