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Colombia
Legal Framework in Colombia: There are no regulations specific to surrogacy in Colombia. In the last 25 years, 16 bills have been rejected. While a 2009 Constitutional Court ruling authorized surrogacy “without regulating it,” it did not provide a framework for “how to establish the contract between the different parties, parentage, medical and financial obligations […]
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India
This study looks in turn at the state of surrogacy legislation, the social context in which it develops, and the situation of surrogates who engage in it. Legislation An initial ultra-liberal position in 2002 Surrogacy has been legal in India since 2002[1]. The text does not provide much detail on access or conditions of […]
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Mexico
This study looks in turn at the state of surrogacy legislation, the social context in which it develops, and the situation of surrogates who engage in it. Legislation A country with diverse legislation As Mexico is a federal country, many powers are delegated to the state level. This is the case for surrogacy, which […]
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United Kingdom
Surrogacy Legislation The UK has the oldest law regulating surrogacy. It is the subject of a national consultation launched in 2019 with a view to revising it. The changes would focus on three points: the removal of the six-month to six-week period after the birth of the child during which the surrogate and her partner […]
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Ukraine
[Study updated in 2022] Legislation A very superficial regulation The regulation of surrogacy in Ukraine is not done by a law but through the Family Code and an order of the Ministry of Health[1] . In the Family Code, it is Articles 2 and 123, which state that if an embryo of a commissioning couple […]
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Greece
[Study updated in 2022] Legislation Surrogacy in Greece is regulated by laws as well as by articles of the Greek Civil Code, court decisions and decisions of the National Authority for Medically Assisted Reproduction (NAMAR). The first law is Law 3089/2002[1] , followed three years later by Law 3305/2005[2] . The latest law is Law […]
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Russia
[Study updated to 2023] Surrogacy legislation Russian federal law has allowed surrogacy since 1993 and the first surrogate birth in Russia took place in December 1995[1]. In detail, three pieces of legislation regulate the different aspects of surrogacy[2]: the Family Code (Art. 51 and 52) [3], the 1997 Federal Law on Civil Status Records[4] and […]
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