The legal status and tremendously high costs of surrogacy in western countries has created a strong and substantial market for womb for rent in East Europe. Surrogacy in Georgia is very well established as a solid industry, with reasonable costs and legislation aimed to attract the tourists unable to find or afford surrogates in their own countries.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in the United States, gestational surrogacy births almost doubled in 2008 from 2004.
And yet, few states have made it easier for couples seeking surrogates, or vice versa, to find each other and few have regulated the activity in any way. In many states, the surrogate is still registered as the birth mother of the child even though she is unlikely to be related to the child at all. The genetic parents will have to “adopt” the child.
Accommodating Surrogacy Laws in Georgia
The intending parents commissioning the surrogate are immediately registered as the parents of the newborn. They are required to provide a Surrogacy Agreement made between themselves, the surrogate and the agency that connected the two parties, the certificate of in vitro fertilization by the clinic and the certificate of the fact of childbirth issued by the hospital.
Women aspiring to be surrogates must go through extensive general health tests and be tested for all the major sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) also. If the commissioning couple cannot provide their own egg and sperm, a donor can be found in Georgia who will provide either one for a fee.
Benefits of Surrogacy in Georgia
Costs are much lower than in western countries. This not only includes all medical costs, but costs for the surrogate and costs of staying in Georgia until the child is conceived.
Georgia itself is a rarely known land, lying on the eastern edge of Europe in the Caucasus Mountains. The Golden Age of the Georgian Kingdom reached its zenith in the 13th century and much of the architecture, castles, art, tapestries and culture still survive. It would be an exquisite land to explore. For those who yearn to see foreign lands this is truly the spot.
A reputable medical tourism agency can make all this worry-free for a couple who wants a baby. The agency will refer surrogacy clinics which will provide the surrogates, negotiate all fees and make all travel and hotel arrangements. The couple only needs to travel for the surrogacy in Georgia, enjoy the country while they stay, wait for their baby to be fertilized and return nine months later to pick it up.
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