Evaluation of Medical, Social, legal, Ethical and Religious Aspects of Surrogacy

Backgrounds: According to the World Health Organization, 10 to 15 percent of the world s couples (more than 80 million) have infertility problems and need some form of assisted reproductive technology. The use of these therapeutic methods has enabled infertile couples who have lost their natural fertility due to weakness in the main factors of child formation. In general, uterine replacement therapy is divided into two main groups, partial and complete replacements, based on the origin of the egg used for embryo development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the medical, social, legal ethical and religious aspects of surrogacy.Material and Method: The surrogacy is the practice whereby one woman carries a child for another with the intension that the child should be handed over after birth, It was fundamentally analyzed analytically. The study was systematically collected and evaluated using multiple articles searches from 1995 to 2019 from various PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google scholar sites.Result: surrogate procedures in some countries such as Sweden and Germany are illegal and in others such as France, Denmark, the Netherlands, some US states and Australia have specific regulations. It seems that what has led some communities to prohibit and cease the use of uterine replacement technology for ethical cultural reasons is to ignore the limitations of medical necessity and extend it to non-medical cases. This attitude and action provided the ground for commercializing the use of third-party IVF methods through the widespread involvement of intermediaries in creating emerging and lucrative markets, and in a way considered the abuse of human dignity and the promotion of slavery. In our country, the consensus of the authorities on the laboratory approval of infertile couples requesting surrogate couples and the refusal of the uterine lady to refuse to deliver the resulting child to the infertile couple after delivery.Conclusion: Do surrogacy in addition to the evidence, Professional counseling needs to be done before the process to the surrogacy should be provided.

Keywords:

Assisted reproduction , gestational carrier , intended parent , surrogacy , surrogate mother