Surrogacy is a legally sanctioned practice in Australia. Surrogacy means an arrangement with a woman, on behalf of another woman or a married couple, to carry a pregnancy till the delivery of a baby which is not her own.
(prHWY.com) December 26, 2012 - Eltham, Australia -- Surrogacy is a legally sanctioned practice in Australia. Surrogacy means an arrangement with a woman, on behalf of another woman or a married couple, to carry a pregnancy till the delivery of a baby which is not her own. If more simply expressed, surrogacy is about hiring and renting a womb for the formation and growth and birth of a baby. To look at it from the view point of the baby, one should know that the baby's mother does not womb it and deliver it on to earth. The woman, who carries the baby, nurtures it in the womb and delivers it, is not its mother.
Surrogacy may be of different type. The surrogate mother may be the baby's genetic mother which is called traditional surrogacy. In this case, the social mother or parents may not be in a condition to be pregnant or does not want the hazards of pregnancy. Now-a-days, the married couple may be all male or the husband cannot impregnate the female wife by sexual intercourse or the wife's ovaries, and the uterus may be unfit to hold an embryo. In this scenario, a woman is hired to conceive by artificial insemination. Fresh sperm or frozen sperm of the hiring husband is used to cause the pregnancy. Thus, the hired woman actually conceives the baby with the use of her ovulated chromosomes that match with the supplied male sperm. She actually becomes the genetic mother of the baby but a surrogate mother.
There is gestational surrogacy. In this case, the commissioning mother is, somehow, physically unfit to carry a pregnancy and to deliver or it is risky for her life. Sperms are taken from both the husband and the wife and grown into an embryo in a fertility clinic. Then the embryo is transferred to the womb of the surrogate mother. This sort of impregnation can be performed at a health clinic. The surrogate mother is not a genetic mother in this case.
Australians have shown a very advanced level of consciousness in the matter of surrogacy from very early days of this practice. While they have legal approval for surrogacy, they have raised some very pertinent questions. There are organisations that support and assist people looking for a surrogate mother. They convince them of the legality of exercise and the cost involved. These working groups are in constant argument with politicians of Green, Labour and the Liberal parties about the fall outs of surrogacy. They have demanded laws to protect the rights of surrogates, intending parents and children. As this is all about an extremely human aspect of mankind, more conscious steps need to be taken. These associations want improved research in laboratories, preservation of sperms and clinical handling of the highest order.
Laws about
surrogacy in australia vary from state to state, and legal protection becomes difficult for Australians who opt for surrogacy overseas. The foreign country can come in between when laws of transfer get interpreted. However surrogacy has come to stay.
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