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On 7th September 2026 a Westminster Hall debate for MPs will be held in the Houses of Parliament. They will be discussing the ‘Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth’ petition that has garnered more than 112,000 signatures.
This petition was created by Adam Frisby, the homosexual fashion mogul who alongside his partner, Jamie Corbett, commissioned baby Leven in the United States. They have publicly bemoaned the current state of surrogacy law in Great Britain as a surrogate child’s intended parents must apply for a post-birth parental order to be recognised as such. Due to Frisby and Corbett commissioning Leven abroad she was recognised as parentless in Britain for the first few weeks of her life.
The text of the petition says:
The law must change so intended parents in surrogacy arrangements are recognised as their child’s legal parents from birth. Families should not have to go through months of court proceedings and social worker visits to be recognised as the parents of a child they planned and love.
When our daughter was born through surrogacy, we became dads the moment we held her. But under current law, the surrogate is automatically recognised as the legal mother (and if she is married, her spouse is recorded as the legal father) even with no biological connection or intention to parent the child.
Intended parents must then go through a lengthy court process to become their child’s legal parents. In 2026 we believe this is outdated. The law needs to recognise intended parents from birth.
California has become one of the world’s surrogacy hotspots, with many commissioning parents excusing their use of American surrogates as they say it is easier to navigate the less regulated system. In reality they prefer the ability to tailor their children based on physical traits and enforce surrogacy contracts, which is harder in Britain where intended parents cannot choose egg donors based on looks and where surrogates or intended parents cannot publicly advertise their desires outside of registered agencies.
Baby Leven being chosen over the countless embryonic brothers and sisters she has, who may destroyed or frozen in perpetuity, will have been done based on eugenic principles.
Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett have knowingly made a motherless child abroad, trafficked her back to Britain, and then tried to change the law because this country is yet to recognise their delusion that children can magically appear without a mother.
The legal change proposed by the petition would allow surrogacy contracts to be legally enforced by British courts meaning mothers who bond with their children throughout pregnancy will have no right to them both before and after birth. Across the Atlantic recent stories have shown us the danger of such a move after a Canadian gay couple sued their surrogate for refusing to abort the cleft lip baby they commissioned. Those who are paying to create children would be recognised as parents before birth, with the birthmother losing any legal recognition or choice regarding the baby she gestates.
It has been illegal to separate a puppy from its mother for the first eight weeks of its life in the United Kingdom since the passage of Lucy’s Law in 2019. Children can be taken from their mother at the moment of birth. If Adam Frisby is successful in his campaign children will lose their right to their mother before birth—children will have fewer rights than dogs.
SPUC’s Communications Manager, Peter Kearney, said: “The tide is turning regarding surrogacy in Europe. The German CDU has sacked Jens Spahn for his hypocrisy and Giorgia Meloni has spearheaded the criminalisation of surrogacy domestically and internationally. Even the UN has seen pushes for a global surrogacy ban.”
He continued, “One of the few issues that the world is waking up to today is the damaging nature of commissioning motherless children. It would be embarrassing for Britain to buck that trend and liberalise surrogacy laws. SPUC will continue covering the process of this petition and work to make sure it fails.”
Anybody is able to attend the Westminster Hall debate on Monday 7th September 2026.
