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Surrogate Parenting (See pages 60-62)
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- Date
- 1989 June 15-23
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 112
- Mover
- Mrs. P. Creighton
- Seconder
- Rt. Rev. J.A. Baycroft
- Text
- That this General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada:
- 1. Urge that as a matter of public policy surrogate parenting should be discouraged.
- 2. Urge that surrogacy contracts should be unenforceable in Canada.
- 3. Adopt recommendations 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 on legal aspects contained in the report of the Anglican Task Force on Surrogate Motherhood on pages 8 and 9.
- 4. Recommend to the provinces and territories that adoption laws ensure that commercial surrogacy (recommending, initiating, arranging, or agreeing to the bearing of a child in a surrogacy arrangement for payment in cash or in kind) is banned in each province and territory.
- 5. Agree that the principles and recommendations in the report of the Task Force on "Surrogate Motherhood", together with the resolutions of this 32nd General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada which relate to surrogacy be the basis of any recommendations by the National Executive Council and other national Church bodies to governments when policy is being formed or legislation enacted.
- 6. Commend the above resources also to the Provinces and Dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada. CARRIED Act 112
- Notes
- Due to conflict of interest, Mr. Justice Ronald Stevenson and Mr. Justice David Wright, Assessors to the General Synod, abstained from voting on the above motion.
- [For earlier acts and discussion subsequently replaced by this Act see pages 60-62.]
- Subjects
- Reproductive technology - Canada
- Reproductive technology - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Surrogate motherhood - Canada
- Surrogate motherhood - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Task Force on Surrogate Motherhood
- Adoption - Canada
- Adoption - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada