Every time we touch on the subject of surrogate motherhood we are aware of the enormous social significance; namely helping parents who are unable to have a baby for any reason. When a contract is undertaken by the surrogate and the biological parents often overlooked are the possible risks to the surrogate during the course of the pregnancy.
WE HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW ONLINE PSYCHOLOGIST SERVICE FOR SURROGATE MOTHERS
Are you a surrogate mother? From now on you can use our new service “Psychologist Online” absolutely free of charge. The Psychologist Online service is intended only for providing free professional psychological help to surrogate mothers and cannot be used for the solution of other questions. An opportunity to use service for other programs participants of auxiliary reproductive technologies will be realized by the end of the current year. Working hours of service: daily from 12-00 till 17-00 (Moscow time), except Saturday and Sunday.
Basic rules of Psychologist Online service: Tolerance, Goodwill, Anonymity.
RESEARCH OF LUMINARI DILETTA
Dear friends!
Diletta Luminari researches in the field of surrogacy. ARTPSC welcomes similar initiatives and sincerely we wish to help madam Luminari in her work. First of all we address to heterosexual couples who addressed earlier to services of surrogate mothers and ask to help Diletta Luminari to share your experience. It can be to a telephone interview, Skype or e-mail. The anonymity is guaranteed. There will be no your real names in her work, only your real stories, motives, feelings, experience. We call on, those who had experience of cooperation with surrogate mothers to make the contribution to this really huge and very important work. Thank you!
SPAIN DOES NOT ACCEPT “SURROGATE” BABIES FROM UKRAINE
Dozens of Spanish families several weeks (and in some cases several months) cannot leave Ukraine.
It is impossible to come back home because the consulate of Spain in Kiev refuses to give the Spanish citizenship to babies who were born in Ukraine from the surrogate mothers.
All the matter is that for obtaining citizenship of the kingdom the diplomatic mission has to confirm that the man really is the baby’s father. But just at this stage many families had problems.
SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD: THE SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY
The federal sociological survey conducted in March 2017 about the attitude of Russians to surrogacy showed that 73% of respondents do not see sense in the legislative ban of surrogacy in order that married couple who wants to address to this procedure cannot give a birth to a baby because of their health reasons. Opinions were shared, and 27% of the respondents who got to selection categorically consider that surrogacy is morally unacceptably both on commercial and on a voluntary basis.
Participants of poll expressed also the opinion on cases when after surrogacy a biological mother wishes to keep the baby. So, 51% of respondents specified that she has the right for it, and this right cannot challenge even court. However 18% are sure that both with moral, and from legal side the baby has to be transferred to married couple who acted as the initiator of the surrogacy procedure. But and 31% of respondents refrained from the answer to this question and from further comments.
Ukraine in not India: is it possible to regulate the sphere of surrogacy?
“Ukraine became one of the centers of commercial surrogacy” — such a strong statement was announced by the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko on July 16 at a briefing in Kiev. He reported that workers of the State Office of Public Prosecutor have found out the criminal scheme which included Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom and it was involved in the organization of surrogacy.
In Israel surrogacy for lonely women is approved
Amendments to the relevant law are adopted in the third, outcome reading.
Before the current law allowed using technology of surrogacy only to heterosexual married couples and in the presence of medical indications (if the woman cannot carry out and give birth to the baby by herself).
Now unmarried women, but also in the presence of the medical indications also can address the help to surrogate mother.
“After long and extremely heated discussion, having sustained all objections, the plenum of the Knesset claimed in the third, outcome reading the amendment to “The law on surrogacy” — such message was made by the parliamentary press service. Voted pro 59 deputies, contra — 52.
Is BioTexCom a criminal or a victim?
As we reported earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine suspects the known Kiev clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom of commission of a number of serious crimes such as: forgery, human trafficking and evasion of taxes. In turn in 3 days after the sensational events one of co-owners of clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom Albert Tochilovski said that the real purpose of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is raider occupation of BioTexCom clinic and it does not exclude that in the nearest future the clinic will carry over some son of the official from prosecutor’s office. Albert Tochilovski’s statement for cases of raider capture of private business in Ukraine through the Prosecutor General’s Office not news. Unfortunately such “practice” is alive in Ukraine and we often hear in media and numerous Internet media about pressure cases from the Prosecutor General’s Office on private business. We should remember also that on corruption level Ukraine won in 2017 first place among 41 European countries and since then nothing changed. Knowing this fact, we of course assume that mister Tochilovski of the rights and the only reason of “attack” on its clinic this desire to take away their successful business from lawful owners. But there is one detail in this case which mister Tochilovski held back. We can accuse as much as necessary the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine of corruption, but whether we have sufficient bases to accuse of corruption the Italian law enforcement agencies thanks to which and it became known of this case? It is already proved by the Italian law enforcement authorities that documents were forged, and the children born in Ukraine by surrogate mother have no biological communication with one of Italian parents. The management of BioTexCom clinic was expressed earlier the intention to make own internal investigation in “the Italian case”, but on the date of writing this article of any information from them it was not obtained yet.
BioTexCom Kiev Reproduction Clinic Accused of Human Trafficking
Yesterday in many leading Ukrainian media information that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine suspects Kiev clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom for trafficking children and forgery appeared. The Attorney-General of Ukraine Yuryi Lutsenko at the briefing which is specially organized for this purpose reported about it. The Attorney-General reported that the BioTexCom company forged documents and gave to customers biologically not their children. Let’s remind that according to the legislation of Ukraine surrogacy provides obligatory biological relationship at least with one of parents. This rule, according to the Attorney-General of Ukraine BioTexCom clinic neglected and there is a suspicion that about one thousand families could suffer from its criminal activity. One of such cases was revealed by the Italian law enforcement authorities when it became clear that the Italian married couple, having used services of BioTexCom in 2011 is not biological parents of the child. Documents were forged as the carried-out expertize showed. At the moment the Italian married couple is in Italy under arrest.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GAYS FATHERS WITH A CHILD (CHILDREN) WHO WERE BORN WITH THE HELP OF SURROGACY
Brussels University ULB begins a new research concerning surrogacy of gays fathers. Professor Salavatore D’Amore and his researchers look for suitable participants. If you know gay fathers with child (children) were born born with the help of surrogacy (in your organizations) or you are such father, follow the link below. And also, please, spread this request or publish the following link on social networks.
All details and a link here: http://nelfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Flyer.English.Survey.ULB_.pdf
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