Surrogacy - Erasing Mothers: the exploitation of women and denial of the mother baby dyad - Lexi Ellingsworth Live at the Derby Women's Festival

Send us Fan Mail Lexi Ellingsworth, co-founder of Stop Surrogacy Now UK, joined us at the Derby Women’s Festival in May 2026 - an event organised by the Women’s Rights Network Derby and Staffordshire group. Lexi was here to tell us why we should ban all forms of surrogacy and what people can do to work towards this aim. Lexi spoke on ‘Surrogacy - Erasing Mothers: the exploitation of women and denial of the mother baby dyad.’ The festival speakers were able to debate the issues with the audience and listen to talks by Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend, Ruth Lewis from MoMa Breastfeeding, Sorcha Nic Lochlainn from The Countess, Jennifer Gourley from Protect and Teach and Kathleen Richardson Author of Sex Robots - The end of love, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at Leicester’s De Montfort University Find Stop Surrogacy Now on X @WombsNotForRent and for further information take a look at the website https://stopsurrogacynowuk.org/ #DerbyWomensFestival If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more, go to womensrights.network/wrn-podcast to listen, download and subscribe to more of our episodes. You can also find more news, articles and videos on our substack at https://womensrightsnetwork.substack.com And if you’d like to join our live conversations, go to womensrights.network/join-wrn