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Mass media about surrogate motherhood
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14/01/2011
A mother against her Will
The resident of Ulyanovsk, a mother of two kids, Zinaida Rakova decided to earn money with the help of surrogate motherhood to buy an appartment. In her native city the woman couldn’t find potential clients, so Zinaida went to Moscow, turned to an intermidiary and she got to a real clandestine factory of surrogate mothers. She was settled into an untended one-room flat, where besides Zinaida there were three other surrogate mothers. For bearing a baby for the strangers she was promised a substantial income – about 650 000 roubles. In the long run, she was left without money and with somebody else’s child.
“My advertisement in Internet was answered by a girl who introduced herself as the biological mother’’, recalls Zinaida, but it came out that it had been an intermidiary. I didn’t see the real genetic parents, Julia and Pavel Chentsovy from Tula, at first I met only the grandmother, the mother of biomother, the one who was in control of the entire process.
According to Zinaida Rakova, settling down in a flat - scrapyard with air mattresses instead of beds, she didn’t think she might be deceived. And even when before the IVF procedure she was taken away the contract, allegedly for the further legal execution, the woman was not suspicious of anything.
“The first three months I was being paid 15 000 roubles for food and dwelling and then the payments were stopped. Moreover, I found out that the same couple reseated the genetic material to another woman- surrogate mother but I hoped they would take both kids- it had been discussed as far back as at the early stages of the pregnancy. When it turned out that the other woman was pregnant with twins, at the fifth month of pregnancy the genetic parents met me, offered to have an abortion and in the lawer’s presence withdrew from that child.
Naturally,at such duration not a single clinic will take on pregnancy termunation. When the child was born and it was the time to process the birth certificate, there was nothing to write into the columns “mother and father” - the parents had simply disappeared without a trace. Zinaida had to take the child from the maternity hospital to her own home.
“When the surrogate mother gives birth to a child in a maternity hospital”, comments on K. Svitnev, General Director of the Law Company “Rosyurconsulting”, she signs a document about her agreement for writing in her name in the parents - those who had ordered the surrogate programme- column. And with this document and with the medical birth certificate, where the surrogate mother is stated as the child’s mother, the parents head to the Civil Registry Office, where the child’s registration takes place.
Nevertherless, there is no separate law about surrogate motherhood in Russian Federation. And the following mishap can’t at all be inserted in any federal law. The lawers advise Rakova to bring the case before the court for establishment of paternity and recovery of alimony from the child’s genetic father by judicial process and after - be guided by the situation.
“The genetic expertise will prove Pavel Chentsov’s paternity,” the lawer Shota Gorgadze says, “and then he will be paying alimony until the child turns 18 or he will recall that you have no relevance to the child and will take him away”.
No matter which way you look at it, acording to Russian laws the priority still remains after the surrogate mother. If you don’t want to give the child to the genetic parents, it’s your full authority. That’s why the internet speckles with the blacklists of surrogate mothers, who were paid by the parents but never saw the child.
“Yes, there were cases in Russian Federation, when surrogate mothers demanded from the parents double or triple sums for the born child”, comments on sexual health specialist Boris Lordkipanidze”.
Meanwhile church officers insist on the fact that surrogate motherhood is an immoral procedure.
“Here at the very beginning there is some perversion”, Father Andrey says, marriage has been forethought by the God as a unity of a man and a woman and here comes the third person. Because of this the child might have a selfidentification problem later on. Our characters happened to be in a complex life situation, I don’t blame them. At the same time we can’t endorse the fact that surrogate motherhood is good from the Christian point of view and morality.
The resident of St. Petersburg Natalia Klimova, who thanks to the surrogate mother could continue the life of the dead son, also faces Russian lawlessness while registering the child.
“Two years ago, when my son was diagnosed with cancer, before performing chemotherapy, the doctor advised to leave the sperm for cryopreservation’’, Natalia tells “, something like after the chemotherapy the sperm can be infertile and the lad will get well, want to have his own kids, depreserve the sperm and will do this through IVF. The son had left the sperm but he died in the long run. My first thought was: I want to have genetically relative grandchildren.
Taking into consideration the situation, the clinic agreed to the IVF procedure but all the legislative issues concerning the surrogate mother the woman had to solve on her own.
“And suddenly I have understood that in our country there were problems with surrogacy and egg donation, because you never know what genetic material you will be given. Moreover, in the contracts it is said that it is prohibited to have concerns even about the race. For instance, you’ve had an Afro- American child, you have no right to resent because the donor is given anonymously.That’s why I was choosing the egg donor and the surrogate mother myself, applied to the agency and to the clinics and I was given several candidacies to choose from. I wanted so much for the grandson to look after the son, that’s why we were looking for the “ donor” with hazel eyes and dark hair. By the present day I have my own genetically related grandson. According to the documents I am his mother.
To get these documents the woman had to go through the seven circles of hell.
“When I came to the Office of Civil Registration, I encountered the Director’s refusal motivated by the fact that I am a single mum and I had no legal right to enter an IVF programme. It came up to a funny thing - I was told that according to the law it was not prohibited to register such kids but at the same time it was not allowed. I applied to the court that acknowledged me as the mother of the child. The head of the Office of Civil Registration looked at the document and said she would dispute the court’s decision.
And only after the head of the Office of Civil Registration was “put the heat on” from above, she condescended to register the child.
“I would want so much the law in Russia spellt out in such a way for nobody to find fault with it and for all the officiary to read it in the like manner”, summerizes Natalia Klimova, but the officiary say there is nobody to deal with this and no people to try for.
In the meantime the matters stand completely otherwise in the Ukraine. Civilized ways of solving the surrogate motherhood issues leave behind such terms as lawlessness, immorality and deception. In the Ukraine such things plainly don’t exist.
Iryna Lubenskaya, a surrogate mother from Kharkov, Ukraine, living in a quite well-off family, decided to become a surrogate mother out of honorable intentions.
“I gave birth for a married couple from Ciprus”, Iryna is telling, “I applied to a specialized Centre, rendering quilified legislative help for me and attending me at all the programme stages. I was getting acquainted with different parents, watching them – how much they needed the child. Eventually I liked those parents, they liked me. It was not difficult to give away the child, neither psychologically, nor morally – I was sensitized from the very beginning to just performing an act of kindness. Notably, not for the gratification, though I have received it”.
Andrey Malakhov’s assumption that 70% of girls apply for becoming surrogate mothers in order to make profit was suppressed on the vine by Victoriya Chuprinova, the Director of the only one existing in the Ukraine Center of surrogate motherhood.
“At the moment we are performing scientific research of the given phenomenon and I can claim that surrogate mothers are women with a particular mentality, who understand initially that they bear a completely strange to them child. And “the black list” of the surrogate mothers on the Internet cites is a consequence of Russian legislative system downsides. In the Ukraine this issue has been closed and regulated by the law as in the Ukraine the couple who ordered for themselves the IVF procedure are unambiguously considered the parents of the child. Moreover, in our contracts there is an additional clause – a couple who have agreed for two embryos transfer has no right to choose. If they want one child – we transfer one emryo, if they want two – we transfer two, but after the birth they must take all of them. Embryo reduction in surrogacy programmes must be banned from ethical point of view.
To the question about the cost of the programme for the parents and the surrogate mother Chuprinova has unscambled everything:
“In order to participate in the programme in our Centre a family should have 25000$ on hand. 7 000$ from this sum is the cost of IVF procedure itself, about 8 000 $ costs medical supervision of the pregnancy and surrogate mother’s delivery in order to create comfort for surrogate mothers in a maternity hospital and provide for rendering more qualitative and qualified service. 7 000$ is a compensation for the surrogate mother, plus monthly social payments – for food and clothes. All the surrogate mothers from our centre live in their own families, with their kids and husbands, nobody settles them down in any horrible conditions. And the first priority task for the genetic parents is to create for the surrogate mother comfortable and qualitative conditions of living while participating in the surrogate programme.
Taking into consideration that in Russia similar programme will cost genetic parents 60 000 – 100 000 $, not very high cost of the Ukrainian variant of the surrogate motherhood programme is explained by Victoria Chuprinova in the following way:
“The task of our Centre is to make the process itself most possiblly cheaper, for the greater number of people to experience the joy of maternity and paternity”.
At the attemp of the Russian opponents to resent that the programme’s becoming cheaper happens at the expense of surogate mother's compensation, the show presenter Andrey Malakhov has mouthed a sacral phrase: “Don’t pay attention, friends. Let’s not count somebody else’s money – on the plus side they have everything in accordance with law. And by us both the programme is more expensive and surrogate mothers live almost at a disposal dump”.
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