Surrogacy: A Novelty Concept in North Macedonia
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https://doi.org/10.17140/WHOJ-7-140Keywords:
Laws; Gestational carrier; Commercialization; Altruism; Child rights; Health consequencesAbstract
Surrogacy has existed since ancient times. Depending on the way of creating an embryo, two types of surrogacy differ, traditional and gestational. When it comes to monetary compensation, two types of surrogacy exist, altruistic and commercialized. A lot
of questions come to light such as: Is the altruistic surrogacy a humane gesture for all contracted parties? What if the mother
changes her mind? Do the babies born of surrogacy mothers have rights? In North Macedonia, surrogacy was introduced for
the first time in 2014 in the amended Law on Biomedicine and Assisted Fertilization. It was a novelty having in mind that in the
Law of 2008 the surrogacy as a practice was outlawed. The amended law applies the term gestational mother and provides a
liberal stance, but many provisions are unclear.
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