{"id":109700,"date":"2025-09-25T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/reforming-quebecs-surrogacy-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:21:03","slug":"reforming-quebecs-surrogacy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/reforming-quebecs-surrogacy-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Quebec\u2019s Surrogacy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jurivision is pleased to launch this new visual publication featuring a legal article from\u202fthe Revue g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de droit<\/em><\/a>. This innovative project is the result of a collaboration between Jurivision and the Revue<\/em>, with financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). These visual publications help mobilize legal knowledge while highlighting the authors who publish their work in the journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2023, Bill 12 came into force, introducing significant reforms to Quebec\u2019s surrogacy laws. According to Quebec\u2019s Minister of Justice, this bill sought to better reflect the needs and realities of Quebec families, to prioritize the best interests of children born through surrogacy and to protect the rights of surrogates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Carsley analyses the implications of these reforms for surrogates, intended parents and children born through surrogacy, and argues that these changes may have effects that run counter to lawmakers\u2019 objectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These observations are drawn from her article, \u201cReforming Quebec\u2019s Surrogacy Laws\u202f\u201d published in the Revue g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de droit.

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Coming into force in June 2023, Bill 12 significantly reformed the legal framework surrounding surrogacy in Quebec. According to the Minister of Justice, the law aims to better reflect the realities faced by Quebec families, prioritize the best interests of children born through surrogacy, and protect the rights of surrogates. In this visual post, Professor Stefanie Carsley revisits the reform, pointing out that some measures may actually run counter to the legislator\u2019s intended goals. Her analysis is drawn from her article Reforming Quebec\u2019s Surrogacy Laws, published in the Revue g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de droit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":109717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[341,8,20],"class_list":["post-109700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","category-no-genre","tag-droit-de-lenfant-en","tag-family-law","tag-human-rights"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"},{"value":6,"label":"No Genre"}],"post_tag":[{"value":341,"label":"Droit de l'enfant"},{"value":8,"label":"Family Law"},{"value":20,"label":"Human Rights"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Sophia","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/sophia\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":80,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0},{"term_id":6,"name":"No Genre","slug":"no-genre","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":6,"category_count":13,"category_description":"","cat_name":"No Genre","category_nicename":"no-genre","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":341,"name":"Droit de l'enfant","slug":"droit-de-lenfant-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":341,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":8,"name":"Family Law","slug":"family-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":20,"name":"Human Rights","slug":"human-rights","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109700"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111348,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109700\/revisions\/111348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}