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A new decision of the European Court of Human Rights on surrogacy
Icelandic justice recognized the existence of family life between a couple of women and their child born under the surrogacy method in the United States. However, he denied them the maternal bond as surrogacy in Iceland is not legal. The baby was born in February 2013...
Solidarity pregnancy under cover
The justice of the city of Buenos Aires ordered a social work to fully cover the assisted reproduction procedure, considering the expenses of the pregnant woman in solidarity. The woman who will receive the treatment is a friend of the clients (the couple who want to...
Surrogacy: The importance of psychologically accompanying intending parents
(By Lic. Carolina Naddeo) Current society and cultural changes in recent decades have increased the demand for medically assisted reproduction treatments. These treatments must be considered from an interdisciplinary work between professionals, who...
Necessary professionals
In a gestational surrogacy process, there are, apart from the people directly involved in the pregnancy (intended parents and surrogate), a group of professionals from the medical and legal environment. It is very important that the whole multidisciplinary team exert...
Being a surrogate mother
The surrogate mother is the woman who offers to carry the baby of another person or couple in the process of gestational surrogacy. She is also called gestational carrier or host carrier. Although each country outlines its own conditions whether to accept a woman as...
Being intended parents
Mother and Fathers in gestational surrogacy, also known as intended parents, are those people who turn to surrogacy in order to be able to have babies. In most cases, they do not manage to conceive in another way so they turn to gestational surrogacy as a last...
Gestational Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy, also called surrogate motherhood, or third-party reproduction, is an assisted reproductive technique by which a woman agrees to carry another person’s baby. The woman who surrogates her gestational capacity is also called “surrogate”,...