“Because it is a worldwide and prevalent need, surrogacy should be universally accepted and established by all nations as a subject of international law.  This requires that all nations involved protect, first of all, the children and also surrogacy programs that disallow discrimination regardless of differences in legislative factions.”

“Every day I see people who for five to seven years had a dream of having their own child, and knowing the only thing that could help them was surrogacy.  And, when they submitted and went through the process, you cannot imagine their happiness when they received their long-awaited child.  Such successful couples are ‘over the moon’ with joy.”

“There are 42 million married couples in Russia, and 47% have no children.  About 15% are childless for medical reasons, so there is a significant problem of infertility.  This situation can be resolved only with the help of surrogacy.”

In all countries of the world, about 10% of married couples face the problem of infertility.  In Ukraine alone that equates to about one million couples!

Surveys show that more than one half (51%) of Russians believe surrogate mothers perform necessary and useful work.  However, about one fourth (26%) opposes surrogacy, considering it to be morally inadmissible.  It should be noted that the staunchest opponents were elderly people having low levels of education and income.

“For the surrogacy process to be successful with a legal foundation, it is necessary to forbid a surrogate mother from keeping the child.  While human nature sometimes may have the effect of wanting to change her mind, if a woman agreed and signed a contract to be a surrogate mother, she must adhere to her legal obligation.”

“In the Ukraine the average cost of a completed full process of surrogacy ranges from 35 to 45 thousand dollars.  This includes remuneration of the surrogate mother along with various medical, legal and other miscellaneous expenses.”

“I am not at all ashamed of the fact that I go through the process of being a surrogate mother; in fact it is a pleasant endeavor of which I am proud.  I could be silent for various reasons, for example, that some others believe that I am ashamed of it.  However, to the contrary, I am sincerely motivated and pleased to help a family have a child.”

“I would like to become a surrogate mother for a married couple from Denmark.  I do not worry about whether I will become parentally or otherwise intimately attached to the child.  As a gestational surrogacy, the child will have its own genetic parents, so I will have no problem remaining impersonal.”