Category: Surrogacy

One of the main purposes of any legal system is to protect the most vulnerable, in this case, its the family members. To an extent, legal and non-legal methods have been largely ineffective when achieving justice for family members in relation to surrogacy and birth technologies. Surrogacy has been a prominent issue in regard to…

It has been estimated that more than 80 million people are affected by infertility across the world. When a couple is not able to conceive a child naturally it seems to have a huge impact on the relationship as in most cases women are the normally blamed for being infertile. Society has also created a…

Introduction Surrogacy, according to Lasker, is a type of assisted reproduction in which a female agrees to bear a child for another woman or a couple. In many cases, surrogacy is the alternative method for single parents or spouses with reproductive health challenges to raise children. Surrogate mothers have become a source of hope for…

Abstract This article majorly looks at three different works concerning womens health and the taboos related to it, which includes the maternity services offered by dais in different parts of India and surrogacy. The three works are: Can Maternity Services open up to the Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery by Mira sadgopal, The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill,…

In 2004, the Canadian government passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) that was designed to prevent the commercialization of surrogacy and sperm and ova donation in Canada (Health Canada, 2019). The AHR Act states that no person shall pay consideration to a female person to be a surrogate mother, offer to pay such…

Health and social care in the UK are the source used to find help and support for our wellbeing. It relates to the healthcare provision infrastructure. Health care are a massive subject. However, it mainly focuses on the basics of our needs if hurt or unwell, agencies such as doctors, nurses and paramedics. Social care…

In today’s society, family and relatedness come in many different forms. The family unit has become much more complex due to a range of factors. One factor being new reproductive technologies. New reproductive technologies have been introduced in order to facilitate, prevent or otherwise intervene the process of reproduction. These technologies are used in human…

As advances in artificial reproductive techniques progress, a myriad of possibilities become available for individuals around the world. As possibilities arise, many nuances arise as well, raising several ethical and moral concerns regarding such practices, gestational surrogacy being an eminent one. Recent statistics reveal that one in ten first world couples have difficulty conceiving naturally,…

Introduction Advisory opinions in the world over, have been appreciated and acknowledged as an important source of law[footnoteRef:1], especially in the verge of jurisprudential development. Legal practitioners, diplomats and policy makers in Europe and beyond are agreeable to the fact that the precedents emanating from the European Court of Human rights has contributed positively towards…

Andersons argument for the wrongness of commercial surrogacy rests largely upon the idea that through surrogacy, both the womens labor and the child the labor produces, are treated as a commodity, which devalues both said things (Anderson,1990). She presents the Kantian thesis against the commodification of persons to support this stating to fail to value…