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Surrogacy – gift of contemporary medicine

Term “surrogacy” is used when a woman is giving her alvus to give birth to a baby instead of another woman. This is a possibility for fertility-challenged couples have their own child. With the help of such gift of contemporary medicine homosexual couples and single women can make their dream come true.
Future parents need surrogacy for many reasons: numerous miscarriages, hysterectomy, hypertension, heart and liver diseases, etc.

There are two kinds of surrogacy: absolute and incomplete. Incomplete surrogate mother is the one who carries a child with the help of her egg cell. Surrogate mother’s egg cell is conceived by father’s sperm or donor’s sperm through artificial insemination. Absolute surrogate mother is neither genetically nor biologically connected with the child. Surrogate mother is inseminated via artificial insemination, one or several embryos, received from parent’s
(Donor’s) egg cell and sperm are implanted into the alvus.
Surrogacy is considered to be one of the most expensive ways of infertility solution. Not every couple can afford it. In highly-developed countries the cost of surrogacy program equals 60-100 thousand US dollars. In developing countries, such as India the cost is much lower.
The attitude to surrogacy in different countries is controversial. In Switzerland, Denmark and Swiss surrogacy is forbidden; in Spain it is allowed, however the surrogate contracts are of no force. In Belgium and Greece surrogacy is allowed. In USA surrogacy is widespread among homosexual couples. Surrogacy is also allowed in Great Britain, Israel, Georgia, Australia, Spain and Netherlands. Since 2002 surrogacy and surrogacy combined with egg cells/sperm donation became legal. Surrogacy is regulated by article 123 Ukrainian family law and Ukrainian Ministry of Health, directive 771. According to law, donor or surrogate has no paternity right for the child. New born is a legal child of future parents.