Affordable Surrogacy in Georgia

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 13^th 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.

Surrogacy in Eastern Europe

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.