Olivia Maurel

I mean, it's not a very good study, to be honest, but I hope everyone reads it because you can really see how it doesn't make any sense

And other than that, there is no study on surrogate-born children.

However, we do have studied

children that are adopted.

Adoption, we try and repair the situation of a child that was caused by life.

And in surrogacy, we program the abandonment of the child.

So it's two very, very different things.

But we do have one common ground, and that common ground is the fact that we were all separated from our mothers at birth.

And we know that adoption can

absolutely involve deep questions about identity and loss.

And we know that, and we have to take it seriously.

And studies show that adoptees face significantly higher risks of depression and even suicide attempts.

So that just tells us something very, very important, that separation at the beginning of life matters.

Yes, I've been at this for two and a half years now.

I have seen huge progress.

And such great things happening.

In Italy, we've seen a great ban on surrogacy.

I mean, of course it's banned within the country, but Italy has banned its citizens from going abroad and coming back with a child.

So that was amazing.

I was sent to Slovakia, actually, to do some lobbying and talk to some members of parliament to pass a ban on surrogacy in their constitution, and they did it.