The first applicant was a 56 year old single woman who has been trying for 14 years to conceive a child of her own. Between 2001 and 2011, she underwent 18 unsuccessful rounds of In-vitro fertilization (IVF) and two miscarriages. She was advised to consider surrogacy as a next option. As her eggs that were donated for the IVF process were no longer viable and as she had no partner to contribute sperm she was then informed that she could not legally enter into a surrogacy agreement due to the restriction set out in section 294 of the Children’s Act.
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