Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, presenting the keynote address at a conference in Melbourne, laid out 8 myths about surrogacy. The first will shock you: That the majority of commissioning parents want a genetically related child to love and nurture for a lifetime. The available evidence, drawn from investigative journalism and civil society research, does not support this as the *predominant* profile, and children have in some cases been commissioned for abuse, trafficking or organ removal.