{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/034e266c-e951-4b7f-a38b-880af79888bf/65181f6a936e070011088985?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Today's teaser for Ep.10, Michael talks to the HFEA and Dr Carole Gilling-Smith about future HFEA reforms","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/621f5c104892fd470c24d49f/1697537804183-955e74576797a923e807dfc4f6868585.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My Surrogacy Journey - The Podcast is the UK's leading multi award winning podcast from a non profit UK surrogacy organisation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Michael and Wes are your hosts, and as parents themselves through surrogacy to two children (Talulah is 7 and Duke is 4) they continue to advocate, campaign and strive to improve the landscape of surrogacy in the UK and globally. Addressing safety, exploitation and educating those about the real truths about safer surrogacy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Today’s teaser episode is all about The HFEA reforms and what opening the register means both donors and recipients.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Welcome back!&nbsp;Michael is your host today and he chats to Dr Carole Gilling Smith from <a href=\"https://agoraclinic.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Agora</a> in Brighton as well as Rachel Cutting MBE from <a href=\"https://www.hfea.gov.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority</a> (HFEA), who as an independent organisation regulate UK fertility treatment.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our wonderful guests tell us all more about how regulation is changing and the impact on all those using and that used donor gametes. We really enjoyed this episode as it provides a fascinating insight to how fortunate we are in the UK to have a fertility regulator.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My Surrogacy Journey is a Talulah and The Duke Production and is recorded in London at Outset Studios</p>","author_name":"My Surrogacy Journey"}