Netherlands: Prime Minister announces he is expecting a child through surrogacy

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his partner Nicolás Keenan announced on 19 October they are expecting their first child via surrogacy, using a friend as surrogate and an egg donor, under the Netherlands' "altruistic" surrogacy rules. The news comes as a surrogacy bill is due before Parliament, and Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly criticized surrogacy as reducing gestation to a negotiable service.