HEALTHCARE
HEALTHCARE TRENDS
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affluence and productivity.
Though the market has boomed
rapidly since years, considering
evolving legislative paradigms India
might expose a massively restricted
surrogacy market, and will shut the
door to singles and gay couples.
GERMANY, SPAIN, FRANCE,
NETHERLANDS
Surrogacy is banned completely,
meaning infertile couples are
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option. But France does not put a
ban on couples bringing in children
from surrogacy contracts abroad.
HONK KONG
Commercial surrogacy is criminal
under the Human Reproductive
Technology Ordinance 2000. The
law is phrased in a manner that
no one can pay a surrogate, no
surrogate can receive money, and
no one can arrange a commercial
surrogacy (the same applies to
the supply of gametes), no matter
within or outside Hong Kong.
Normally only the gametes of the
intended parents can be used.
THAILAND
The law bans foreign couples
from seeking surrogacy services and
stipulates that surrogate mothers
must be Thai and over 25.The
important part is if the couple
seeking surrogacy services is Thai
or the couple is mixed-race, they
can find a Thai woman to be their
surrogate providing she is over 25.