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Surrogacy: Child Trafficking or Patronage?

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The list of countries where surrogacy is legal is expanding every year. In 2015, main destinations for commercial surrogacy, such as India, Nepal, Thailand and Mexico, banned this practice for foreigners. However, global demand for surrogacy is not decreasing. 

“There is a huge demand for surrogacy throughout the world,” an international expert said. “More than 100 million Europeans need surrogacy and are ready to go for it but cannot do this in their own country. Therefore, if it’s impossible to get this service at home, in India or in Thailand, people are looking for a different place! ”

Basically, this search doesn’t take much time. Georgia, Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus are those countries where foreigners can start surrogacy program according to the flexible law of the country. While highly developed countries are only considering surrogacy legalization, other countries have successful practice of helping infertile couples to solve their issues. After all, there are many families in the world for whom surrogacy is the only chance to become parents. Through these programs, couples have the opportunity to experience a complete and utter joy of parenthood.

While surrogacy is gaining momentum worldwide, the process of carrying and giving birth to a strangers’ baby remains ambiguous and controversial. What is it: a unique help to infertile families, child trafficking or kind of patronage?

In the USA, surrogacy is an entire industry. Hollywood celebrities, such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Ricky Martin and many others, do not hide the fact that they became parents via surrogacy. Technology is always changing. Now, it is possible to choose future baby’s gender, eye color and even edit the genome (CRISPR)!

Even top technology companies, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, did not stand aside from the issue of the global fight against infertility. These companies actively cooperate with fertility clinics. They even make ART treatment, including IVF cycles, PGD and freezing of cells and embryos, more affordable for their infertile employees

Infertility is the problem of reproductive health, which unfortunately got larger throughout the world for the last few years. Over the past year, it was recorded that more than 25% of couples around the world have faced infertility as a pressing problem. The demand for ART programs has risen due to the increase in infertility rates. This situation also contributed to the growth of the market. More and more couples choose expensive medical procedures to improve their chances of having a baby.

Surrogate motherhood is one of those programs that allows desperate infertile couples to finally become happy parents. Today surrogate motherhood itself is more than 2% of all ART programs. Until recently, this figure was only 0.1%. And experts estimate that one in three children will be born via surrogate motherhood by 2025.

Under such circumstances, it doesn’t seem surprising that small surrogate motherhood agencies immediately turn into big transnational companies. The first sign that small agencies are being transformed into large companies is that they begin sponsoring football and tennis players, or even become owners of baseball, jujitsu or the other sports clubs – http://jiu-jitsu.news/video/

The companies successfully promote their advertising in the international arena under the guise of kind patronage. In the 21st century, IVF programs for infertile families turned into a large-scale business.

And if the “march” of surrogate motherhood is not stopped, in the nearest future children will turn into a result of sci-fi activity, and the plot of the well-known film “Matrix” will become a reality. A total legalization of surrogate motherhood will gradually lead our society to a modern variation of “the Handmaid’s Tale”. And, ultimately, a new life will no longer be a gift but just a “product” which can be ordered at reproductive clinics.

The European Parliament has condemned the practice of surrogate motherhood in its resolution of 2013, noting that it “undermines the human dignity of being a woman, because her body and her reproductive functions are used as a commercial product.” Nevertheless, the ART market is developing rapidly and having a great popularity among infertile couples, as they cannot find another solution.

This is due to the significant decrease of fertility, increase of public and private investments, raise of awareness about ART programs and technological advances. On the other hand, surrogacy remains a major topic for debates and discussions.  What it really is: a unique chance for infertile couples from all the world to become parents, or business, enabling some companies to earn millions on the issue of reproductive health.

 

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