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 The occurrence of hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets (HELLP) syndrome before 20 weeks of gestation is rare. HELLP is a possible but rare syndrome in gestational surrogate pregnancies for surrogates with risk factors for development of preeclampsia. Case A 32-year-old patient with chronic hypertension and positive antinuclear antibody presented for prenatal care at 13 we...

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...

Japan has no legislation regulating artificial reproductive technology. In surrogate birth, social parents may only register a legal relationship with the child in the Japanese family register, the koseki, using the three current categories of parent-child relationship in Japanese family law: natural, ordinary adoption and special adoption. In 2007, Japan’s Supreme Court dashed the hopes of Jap...

The article, based on a general assessment of the institution surrogate motherhood, discusses issue participation in its programs man who is not married ("single man"). legal ways his paternity outside official marriage are analyzed. Cases using practice illegal "surrogate paternity", contrary to purpose aforementioned institution, stated. forced legalization parenthood this by judicial system ...

s:2087:"Background: Surrogacy is one of the scientific revolutions in infertility domain in recent decades. Despite the widespread use of this technique especially surrogacy in Iran, studies about experiences of its clients are rare. Optimal care of commissioning mothers in surrogacy, requires proper understanding the process of motherhood. The aim of this study was exploration of the motherhoo...

Cloning animals entails transferring the nucleus of a cell obtained from the individual to be cloned into an unfertilized ovum that has had its metaphase chromosomes removed. If successful, the transferred nucleus is re-programmed so to direct development of a new embryo that is genetically identical to the animal from which the cell was obtained. This embryo can then be transferred into a surr...