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People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility. A surrogacy relationship or legal agreement contains the person who carries the pregnancy and gives birth and the person or persons who take custody of the child after birth.
In Australia, all jurisdictions allow altruistic surrogacy; with commercial surrogacy being a criminal offense.In New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory it is an offence to enter into international commercial surrogacy [3] arrangements with potential penalties extending to imprisonment for up to one year in Australian Capital Territory, up to two years imprisonment in ...
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A surrogate marriage describes the arrangement where a woman is infertile or dies young and her family substitutes another woman to bear children for the husband. Surrogate marriage, also referred to as woman-to-man marriage, is a distinctive practice prevalent among certain African communities, notably the Igbo people of Nigeria.
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Surrogate motherhood became possible with advances in reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization. Not all women who become pregnant via in vitro fertilization are surrogate mothers. Surrogacy involves both a genetic mother, who provides the ovum, and a gestational (or surrogate) mother, who carries the child to term.
Surrogacy is legal in Canada, provided that it is an altruistic (unpaid) act.In 2004, the federal government of Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA), which criminalized commercial (paid) surrogacy.
In conventional surrogacy, the egg which is fertilized is therefore that of the surrogate. A famous case involving paternity rights and surrogacy is the Baby M case. In a 'gestational surrogacy', a surrogate agrees to the implantation in her of an embryo which may be created either by using an egg provided by another woman who may be part of a ...