Surrogacy in Reproductive Medicine: Ethical and Legal Analysis of the Procedure - Journal of Biosciences and Medicines

JBM > Vol.4 No.6, June 2016

Journal of Biosciences and Medicines

Volume 4, Issue 6 (June 2016)

ISSN Print: 2327-5081 ISSN Online: 2327-509X

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Surrogacy in Reproductive Medicine: Ethical and Legal Analysis of the Procedure ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jbm.2016.46007 1,237 Downloads 2,193 Views Citations

Author(s)

José Antonio García Pereañez¹, Astrid Elena Lince Echavarría²

Affiliation(s)

¹Medicine Faculty, Universidad de Antioquia, American University Corporation, Medellin, Colombia.
²Medicine Faculty, Universidad de Antioquia, Legal Office of the American University Corporation, Medellin, Colombia.

ABSTRACT

This text sets out the different arguments regarding surrogacy as a reproductive medicine tech-nique in Colombia. The procedure is described, as well as the legal matters that this issue generates. Gestational carriers appear as an alternative for couples who want to have a child but they are not able to conceive because of infertility issues and do not want to go through an adoption process. Therefore, they adhere to surrogacy as an alternative of assisted human reproduction; a procedure that in Colombia faces serious legal gaps and causes ethical dilemmas in the collective imagery. These situations suggest an open discussion through a dialectics between the scientific progress advances, the lack of legal regulation and the constants against ethical positions that the surrogacy procedure causes in Colombia and other parts of the world.

KEYWORDS

Reproductive Medicine, Gestational Carrier, Ethics, Legal, Colombia

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Pereañez, J. and Echavarría, A. (2016) Surrogacy in Reproductive Medicine: Ethical and Legal Analysis of the Procedure. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 4, 46-51. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2016.46007.

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