I have been living and breathing and agonising through surrogacy for a year now. Trying (and, frustratingly, thus far failing) to have a baby via another woman. In the infertility community we nauseatingly refer to it as a “journey”, but it’s more of a huge emotional and logistical rollercoaster that I’m riding, along with reportedly thousands of other couples in the UK. Our numbers are rising, but the surrogacy conversation is still so quiet. Until this week, that is, when it became decidedly more noisy.
Sir James Munby was the head of the Family Division of the High Court — and, as such, the most senior family judge in England and Wales — until his retirement this year. In an interview last week he said