Under What Circumstances Should Surrogacy Contracts Be Enforceable

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Under What Circumstances Should Surrogacy Contracts Be Enforceable 1. Introduction Karen (1997) proposed that contact surrogacy contracts in the social development process increasingly prominent infertility problems. The advances in biomedical technology may provide a technical solution to this problem. The impact of surrogacy on traditional family values and the impact of the law are subversive. It has changed the traditional ways of the establishment of parentage. It also raised many moral and ethical disputes that whether surrogacy should be legalized. What should the theoretical basis lie in? Legislation should be based on what mechanism to adjust the surrogate. This essay is based on the interpretation of the legality of surrogacy contracts, trying to determine the conditions of its validity and scope. 2. Description of Surrogate and Surrogacy Contract With entering of the 21st century, social life has undergone enormous changes, biomedical technology have seen an unprecedented development. Artificial reproductive technology is an important part in the entire biomedical technology, including artificial insemination, Al, inseminations, IVF, surrogacy, and clone it four ways. As biomedical technology difficulties encountered in the 20th century, like artificial reproductive technology despite already produced, but from the date they are incurred, it is doomed to its controversial. Surrogacy as an alternative reproductive technology, the continuation of the way is not a product of modern times. As the embodiment of modern technology, surrogacy contract appears firstly in the mid-1970s. Time Magazine in 1978 firstly used surrogate mother in the mainstream media to describe another female couple for fertility (Beverly, 1987). S... ... middle of paper ... ..., Legal ,Moral & International Perspectives on Surrogate Motherhood: The Call for A Uniform regulatory Scheme in The United States, Depaul Journal of Health Care Law Vol.2:557,pp585 Diekens B M. (2005). Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives (Book Review) 13Med.L.Rev.116. 11 Hofman D L (2009), Mama’s Baby, Daddy’s Maybe: A State by State Survey of Surrogacy Laws and Their Disparate Gender Impact; William Mitchell Law Review vol35:2, pp.454-460 Keran, C L(1997). Surrogacy A Last Resort Alternative for Infertile Women or a Commodification of women’s bodies and children?, Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal Vol.12, pp118 Susan M (2007) Surrogate Motherhood and The Politics of Reproduction, University of California Press Ltd, pp.4 Ruby L. L (2009). New Trends in Global Outsourcing of Commercial Surrogacy, Hastings Women's L.J.,Vol 20:2,pp276-277

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