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Source: ONE News
A New Zealand woman will carry and give birth to her own sibling, after being given approval to act as a surrogate for her mother.
It is believed to be the first approval by the Ethics Committee for Assisted Reproductive Technology (Ecart) of an application from a daughter to carry her mother's child, The Sunday Star Times reports. There have been approvals for women to carry their own grandchild.
The surrogate is one of four siblings and has two children of her own.
Fertility New Zealand chief executive Michelle Collyer has praised the woman's decision to be a surrogate for her mother, calling her an "admirable daughter".
She says the case highlights the growing problem of "social infertility", assuming the older woman has waited until too long in life to have another baby, possibly with another partner.
Ecart was set up in 2005 to consider all applications for surrogacy and fertility procedures in New Zealand. It has heard 69 surrogacy applications, making up about 65% of all fertility treatment applications it receives.
