Infertility is in most cases a basic reason why do people address for the help of surrogate mothers. We often heard stories with the beautiful final from biological parents, the staff of the surrogacy centers, reproductive clinics etc, but we know a little about another side of this coin where there is a fraud, blackmail, deception and simply unfair relations. In this article we would like to shed a little light on a dark side and to share with readers as the real stories which happened with surrogate mothers and intended parents and to show methods of “work” of some unfair participants of the market. Unfortunately, reproductive clinics and the surrogacy centers in a pursuit of big profit do not care for security and guarantees for surrogate mothers and intended parents at all. In the justification they complain about imperfection of the legislation, corruption etc, explaining the passivity in a creative part of the solution of these problems. Also it is necessary to tell that there are many centers of surrogacy which could be categorized to fraud. We simply have not heard about many cases of deception by the surrogacy centers, surrogate mothers only for the reason that surrogate mothers do not know where and whom they should address in case of deception, also there are cases when surrogate mothers are intimidated by any threats in order they not to make public the deception facts. We sincerely hope that people who faced similar cases will not be silent and we guarantee to all who is ready to share with us “experience” — to make public via Internet media.
Ukraine as a capital of surrogacy: potential, problems and solutions
In Ukraine is promptly develops rather new market to the country — reproductive tourism. Among a lot of foreign infertility clinics foreigners choose the Ukrainian. They are attracted by a ratio “the price — quality” and the loyal legislation.
The first Ukrainian “from a test tube” — the age-mate of independence Ukraine. 27 years ago success of the Ukrainian doctors in the field of reproductive medicine was a big hit all over the country. Their pride — Ekaterina Kuleva was born in Kharkiv. She is 13 years younger than Louise Braun from England — the first-ever homo sapience who was born as a result of artificial fertilization. Since then the western fertility doctors considerably succeeded in the business, having left far behind competitors from the former USSR. But recently the situation changes: the flow of the foreigners seeking to solve an infertility problem in the Ukrainian clinics steadily grows.
Ukrainian surrogate mothers lowered the price
Services of the Ukrainian surrogate mothers had become cheaper. If before women asked not less than 500000 UAH, then now — 200000 UAH (about $9000). The earned money the women spend for purchase of apartments and on study.
Announcements of surrogacy became so popular that now they are published in work sections. Most of women write that they already repeatedly participated “in the program of surrogacy”. In the conditions of the big competition they offer themselves on the Internet with photos of children confirming that they have beautiful progeny. Most of temporary mothers (so they call themselves in announcements) are female residents of the Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava and also Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The cost of their services — from 200000 UAH ($8000)
SURROGACY IN RUSSIA. PRESENT-DAY REALITIES
According to the scale of surrogate motherhood, Russia for the past fifteen years has reached the world level and ranks in one row, for example, with the United States. However, despite the hype as for this way of having children and great public interest, infertile couples choose this path very rarely, mainly due to the price being too high. As a rule, public interest in this topic is manifested in cases when stars of show business are addressing to the services of surrogate mothers.
THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN BORN FROM SURROGATE MOTHERS IS GROWING IN RUSSIA
Such data are provided by the Russian Association of Human Reproduction (RAHR). At the same time it is noted that surrogacy is available yet not to all as this service costs much and that it is necessary to state in more detail in the legislation of the right and duty of parents and surrogate mother.
SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD: PECULIARITIES OF LEGISLATION IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
What it is necessary to know about surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine? What legislative acts regulate this sphere? According these questions we prepared the answer in our article.
The program of surrogate motherhood represents reproductive technology by means of which it is possible to gift humanity with own progeny even in the presence of the certain diseases doing this process almost impossible. In Russia surrogacy is authorized the law and is regulated by such normative legal acts as:
Surrogacy in Belarus. Reasons, nuances, taboo
12 years ago childless Belarusian couples could not expect that their child will carried out by other woman. In this country surrogacy was under a ban. Today the similar service became a norm.
An opportunity to sign such contracts appeared in Belarus in 2006 about marriage and family included separate article about surrogacy in the Code of Republic of Belarus. However families decided to take such step not at once. The first contract was signed only two years later. Now on average I certify two contracts a month — the notary of the Minsk city notarial district Valentina Strekh brought up to date.
Surrogate motherhood in Russia and foreign countries: comparative legal analysis
Surrogate motherhood is gaining ground in the world and is at the peak of relevance in modern society. According to statistics, in the late 70s of XX century the number of infertile couples in the world was 5%. Today, this figure is 10–15% in negotiability and reaches 18–20%, and according to some data, up to 30%, taking into account active detection, while already 15% is evidence that the problem has acquired national importance (by definition WHO). In Russia, infertility of married couples is about 15 – 20%. To date, more than 4 million children have been born using assisted reproductive technology methods. Of course, the attitude to this issue is far from unequivocal. Supporters believe that surrogate motherhood gives a chance to those families who are already completely desperate to have their own child. Opponents believe that surrogate motherhood turns children into a commodity, and motherhood becomes paid work. Nevertheless, in this article we set ourselves the goal to dwell in greater detail on the legal aspects of this issue. In most foreign countries, surrogacy is prohibited or restricted. This confirms the fact that the draft resolution on the legislative establishment of the practice of surrogate motherhood was rejected by a majority vote of the members of the Council of Europe Committee on Social Issues, Health and Family Relations.
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