SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD

surrogacy in Ukraine

Surrogate Motherhood Program in the World and Ukraine

The infertility problem or people’s incapability to have their children and continue their family line is known from ancient time. Therefore just then the people has got an idea of surrogate motherhood: the first case of attraction of a surrogate mother-maidservant Hagar for bearing of Abraham’s child when his wife Sarah could not become pregnant was fixed in the Old Testament (the Book of Genesis, 16) so long ago as two thousand years before Christ. Many similar cases of solving the infertility problem are known: handmaids and concubines were used as surrogate mothers in many countries all over the world. Of course, then «traditional surrogate motherhood»only was possible where the customer father and the surrogate mother herself were the genetic parents and fertilization was conducted in a natural way.

The first successful in vitro artificial fertilization with subsequent extracorporeal fertilization took place in England in 1978 resulting in birth of Louise Brown, the first in vitro child!

Use of extracorporeal fertilization, bearing and birth by a surrogate mother of a child fully genetically alien to her (so called gestational or full surrogate motherhood) first succeeded in USA in 1986.

In Ukraine the start of introduction of methods of supporting reproductive medicine was given in eighties of the preceding century. It was Kharkov where the extracorporeal fertilization method was for the first time successfully applied in Ukraine, and thanks to use of extracorporeal fertilization there was born in 1991 a girl named Katy. Kharkov was also the first in CIS countries to realize the Surrogate Motherhood Program. Above 400 in vitro children were born in Kharkov just during last ten years.

More than two million in vitro children were born in the world during 30 years that passed after Louise Brown birth. This means that more than two millions of families managed to overcome the infertility problem, become the parents of beloved and longed-for children and have the successors and continuers of their family traditions!

The medical constituent of the Surrogate Motherhood Program has been intensely developing for all these years and now it is being realized at the highest technological level – now physicians need not take 600 attempts of the extracorporeal fertilization, which were taken to make possible birth of Louise Brown. The legal constituent of the Surrogate Motherhood Program remains so far insufficiently settled in many countries.

For example, surrogate motherhood is prohibited by law in Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France and some states of the USA.

Attraction of surrogate mothers for settlement of the infertility problem is not governed by law at all in Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Finland, though it is practiced.

Some countries only allow for non-commercial surrogate motherhood when the surrogate mother gets no fee, and advertising of surrogate motherhood and search for surrogate mothers are prohibited. Such is the legislation of Australia, the UK, Denmark, Israel, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands and some states of the USA.

Use of surrogate mothers services , including commercial-base one, is allowed by law in the majority of states of the USA, the Republic of South Africa, Russian Federation, Georgia and Ukraine.

Our country has the most perfect legislation relating to surrogate motherhood, insemination and sperm and egg donors hip, as well as use of other reproductive technologies for treatment of infertility. However these legal issues are rather complicated and not many lawyers are good in all the peculiarities of this field.

The specialists of the Surrogate motherhood Center will provide you with legal support, present a reliable information on all the aspects of the Surrogate Motherhood Program, control organizational problems, psychological state of the program participants, propose choice of potential surrogate mothers and create comfortable and reliable conditions for infertility treatment by extracorporeal fertilization and gestational surrogate motherhood methods.

It is not accident that some countries allow only non-commercial surrogate motherhood. This approach is more acceptable for those couples who have to advert to artificial fertilizations methods since the services of reproduction clinics are rather expensive. And at the same time, anyone has the right to satisfy his or her interests, so the surrogate mother has the right to obtain gratitude for her help. Our organization tries to find the balance between the interests of all the participants of the program, so the fee paid to the surrogate mothers chosen by our Center is not too high, though it is available. In this case it is provided for to finance partially or fully the families having no sufficient means at the expense of the Surrogate motherhood Center charity programs.

All the activities of the Surrogate motherhood Center are approved by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Administration of Justice in Kharkov Region and State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship.