The Legal Aspects Of The Surrogate Pregnancy - 1472 Words

For most individuals, surrogacy is the only way to have children. Thus, modern reproductive technologies are on top. However, there is a question that remains difficult physiologically, legally and ethically. Let alone the Old Testament Genesis 16, which states that Abraham s wife could not get pregnant, and her husband had to use a maid Hagar, impregnating her naturally. Slaves, concubines and peasant, were surrogate mothers by traditional way. Now it is intelligently called partial surrogacy or surrogacy genetic linkage, and the method of fertilization is not as romantic or godly like. History of Medicine claims that, ancient Indian reproductive technologies were the best. However, they turn to stay neutral about the legal†¦show more content†¦It is, first of all, the problem of â€Å" extra embryos† and the possibility of their destruction, sale, abuse, and a number of others that remains unsolved. Theoretically, the number of potential children from one donor may exceed the entire population of the earth. From a utilitarian’s point of view, the act of surrogacy is ethical as the families as well as the surrogate mother are all happy in the end. Furthermore, another major ethical question been asked is whether: to hide or not to hide? No state requires parents who have used surrogate motherhood, to talk about the process with their children. This will be seen as invasion of privacy and a violation of the autonomy of the family. A Surrogate mother is a woman who becomes pregnant, carries and delivers a child for another couple in other words â€Å"Commissioners parents.† Surrogacy can be complete or partial. In the case of complete, egg and sperm available to authorized parents or donors. For the full surrogacy IVF is used. It is preferably in the partial. Thus, it is the problem that is one so much medical as ethical and legal. And here can be a lot the views, I will present my own. 47% of couples are childless; more than a third of them cannot have children because of infertility. In different cases, the situation may be different if a woman cannot get pregnant, but are able to bear a child that is used In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Male infertility is also treated. Cases, in which the only solution is the