Surrogacy laws by country

Uncommon card · No. 191992

The vast majority of the world's countries do not have legal frameworks regulating surrogacy. For countries with legal frameworks, some ban commercial (i.e. for profit) surrogacy and regulate the legal contract in altruistic (e.g. reimbursement of expenses) surrogacy. Other countries legalize, or ban, both forms. Often, there are age requirements and medical evaluations for the surrogate to be eligible for surrogacy. Some countries have different legal statuses between gestational, where the surrogate is not an intended parent, and traditional, where the biological mother carries the child. Most jurisdictions in the world give full legal rights for the surrogate to keep the child after birth, with notable exceptions being Georgia, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. Fertile partners, LGBT partners, recently married partners, unmarried partners, or single people may be ineligible to use surrogacy services, despite being legal in their country otherwise. Artificial methods of conception may...

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