After failing to become pregnant, and facing the obstacles in adoption, many couples’ last chance to have a baby lies with hiring a surrogate to carry their child.
Surrogate pregnancy in East Europe has received a boost primarily due to high cost of surrogacy in the western countries.
Conflicting laws in the west can make it difficult to ensure that the child will be considered belonging to the commissioning parents and not the surrogate. The ease of surrogacy laws has also opened opportunities for some Eastern European countries such as Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia to establish a more flexible, much less costly system for surrogacy. Foreign couples, or even single people, can travel to East Europe, hire a surrogate and be confident that their baby will be legally theirs when it is born.
Surrogacy for the intended parents
The only legally allowed form of surrogacy is gestational surrogacy. This means the surrogate has no relationship with the child. The child is 100% related to whoever donates the egg and sperm that is then conceived in vitro in a laboratory.
Undergoing surrogate pregnancy in Ukraine can be viable as Ukraine has extensive assurances for commissioning parents. The surrogates are fully pre-screened and tested. The baby will belong to the commissioning parents. The names of the commissioning parents go on the child’s birth certificate from the beginning. The less stringent legal framework of surrogacy in Ukraine is luring a lot of parents-to-be to this country.
Armenia too has the same guarantees that commissioning parents will be the legal parents of the child. Only women between the ages of 18 and 35 are allowed to be surrogates. They are tested for health and mental issues over a period of six months. Georgia has similar surrogacy laws and assurances.
Benefits of traveling to East Europe for surrogacy
Besides the lower costs and legal assurances, childless couples who have had difficulty conceiving will be able to travel and see the beautiful, exotic and ancient cultures of Europe.
Being away from familiar stresses with a chance to be dazzled by the delights of a foreign country can probably put anxious parents at ease. Healthy eggs and sperm that result in fertilization and eventually a baby have a greater chance if the couple is happy and relaxed. No guarantee, but a holiday environment usually helps.
By all means, all legalities should be checked out. Before embarking on a trip to Eastern Europe, couples should have written guarantee of their rights and expectations. Consulting with a lawyer in East Europe is always a good idea.
Many couples have successfully traveled to Eastern Europe to have a surrogate give birth to their baby and with a little research and investigation, others can have the same success.
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