What is Surrogacy?
The World Health Organization defines: “Gestational carrier” (surrogate mother or surrogacy) is a woman in the uterus of whom the fertilized egg cell and spermatozoid, that belong to some other people, is being placed. This woman carries the child with a precondition, that the parents of the to-be-born baby must be considered those, whose donor embryos were being used during the fertilization.
Who is a Surrogate Mother?
It is a method of combating infertility. By the way, surrogacy has been used since ancient times, it even dates back to biblical times. In modern times man’s sperm is being processed, after which the embryo resulted from the artificial insemination, is being placed in the uterus of a surrogate mother via intrauterine insemination method. In fact, the surrogate mother is the woman who, as it was already mentioned, merely carries the child that was formed artificially. An artificially formed embryo is being cultivated in special laboratory conditions, and the surrogate mother carries the child till the end of the pregnancy and after delivering the baby gives it to the biological parents.
One should take into account, that the baby and the surrogate mother do not have any genetic ties or consanguinity.
Surrogacy in the World
Surrogacy is widely spread in the world, though the laws differ from country to country. It is either under total loyalty or under a total ban. The practice is prohibited in France but is widely used in the United States and many celebrities such as Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Cristiano Ronaldo made use of such services.
Surrogacy in Armenia
Today having children using surrogate mother services has become popular in Armenia due to the following factors:
- due to the development of reproductive medicine
- and particularly, due to in vitro fertilization technologies
- the 2002 surrogacy law that was passes in Armenia and normative measures regulating it
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