BACKGROUND During a commercial surrogacy arrangement, the event of embryo transfer can be seen as the formal starting point of the arrangement. However, it is common for surrogates to undergo a failed attempt at pregnancy conception or missed conception after an embryo transfer. This paper attempts to argue that such failed attempts can be understood as a loss. It aims to reconstruct the experi...

Transnational surrogacy, when people travel abroad for reproduction with the help of a surrogate mother, is a heavily debated phenomenon. One of the most salient discourses on surrogacy is the one affirming that Westerners, in their quest for having a child, exploit poor women in countries such as India. As surrogacy within the Swedish health care system is not permitted, Swedish commissioning ...

The present commentary analyses and discusses the Fjölnisdóttir et al. v. Iceland decision of European Court Human Rights (ECtHR) 18 May 2021. case concerned an Icelandic couple who had been recognised as legal parents a child born by surrogate mother in California. In contrast to most other surrogacy cases decided ECtHR, however, no biological link either intended parents. ECtHR thus found tha...

Providing health care for a woman with a surrogate pregnancy involves unique challenges. Although the ethical debate surrounding surrogacy continues, Canada has banned commercial, but not altruistic, surrogacy. In the event of a custody dispute between a surrogate mother and the individual(s) intending to parent the child, it is unclear how Canadian courts would rule. The prenatal health care p...

BACKGROUND This study examined the motivations, experiences and psychological consequences of surrogacy for surrogate mothers. METHODS Thirty-four women who had given birth to a surrogate child approximately 1 year previously were interviewed by trained researchers, and the data rated using standardized coding criteria. Information was obtained on: (i) reasons for the woman's decision to beco...

Abstract What are surrogates’ views on their experience with surrogacy, understanding of the law, and legal reform? We conducted an online retrospective survey women who underwent treatment as gestational surrogates in two UK-regulated IVF centres between March 2014 October 2021. Forty-seven responded outlining experiences surrogacy England/Wales context, understandings thoughts potential law r...

Objective Surrogacy is one of the most challenging infertility treatments engaging ethical, psychological and social issues. Attitudes survey plays an important role to disclosure variant aspects of surrogacy, to help meeting legislative gaps and ambiguities, and to convert controversial dimensions surrounding surrogacy to a normative concept that eliminates stigma. The aim of this study is to ...

The article is devoted to the study of legal framework surrogacy as a method assisted reproductive technologies in Republic Belarus and European Union countries. Based on identified models regulation surrogacy, countries are divided into three groups. specific features traditional gestational commercial altruistic contracts, status surrogate mother genetic parents, effects presumptions maternit...

BACKGROUND Surrogacy is one of the most challenging infertility treatments engaging ethical, psychological and social issues. Attitudes survey plays an important role to disclosure variant aspects of surrogacy, to help meeting legislative gaps and ambiguities, and to convert controversial dimensions surrounding surrogacy to a normative concept that eliminates stigma. The aim of this study is to...

BACKGROUND Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition for it. In addition to the risk of physical complications for complete surrogate mothers, the possibility of psychological complications resulted f...