Cross Border Surrogacy Research Paper

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The direct costs of a surrogacy range between about US$ 15,000 and US$ 100,000, depending on the price level of the respective country”

Legal framework
Surrogacy is becoming an alternative to adoption. The process of surrogacy is an extremely complex one that involves a lot of different parties but this complex nature has not been reflected in the regulation or in the protection of the interests of the different parties involved.
The EU regulation is extremely varied when it comes to surrogacy policies and legislation and can vary from one end of the spectre the opposite in different member countries. “Any attempt at generalisation would obscure significant aspects of diverse legislative and policy itineraries” Some countries have expressly …show more content…

In Europe each country has its own legislation which allows the system to work smoothly; problems arise when it comes to cross-border reproduction.

Difficulties arise mostly when the intended parents from countries that expressly prohibit commercial law, ignore the laws and hire surrogates in a country or jurisdiction that allows it.
In most cases the children have had no problems returning to the country with the restrictive legislation but in other cases they have had to live in a legal limbo for …show more content…

These situations are not considered under EU law and no Member State is obliged to recognise court judgments or birth certificates from Non-MS Countries. Many of the countries with strict regulations on all matters related to surrogacy, use their family laws to discourage their citizens to commission surrogates abroad, this is done by complicating the recognition of the baby’s descent from the intended parents. The legal mother of the child is recognized by the national law as being the person that has carried the

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