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Ethical, medico-legal and financial aspects of the legalization of surrogate maternity in Bulgaria
Abstract
The legalization of surrogacy and reproductive choices is a possible solution for childless families and the specialists in this area prove that this is a great challenge and responsibility. There are many issues on the topic: medical, ethical, as well as socio-psychological, legal and financial. The aim of present survey is to study and analyse the attitudes of society regarding some medical, social and economic and law aspects related to the legalization of surrogate maternity in Bulgaria.
An anonymous survey was conducted involving 387 people. The data was collected via a pen and paper questionnaire pack. The initiative has provoked wide public interest. According to the participants in the present study, in the event of it being legalized, surrogate maternity should not become a profession, a source of surplus income for the surrogate mother, but the costs directly related to the pregnancy, birth and postpartum recovery should be compensated. The rights of the surrogate mother regarding custody of the child after birth and abortion rights should be limited in favor of the intended parents. The aspects discussed concern only the projected legal framework of surrogate maternity in Bulgaria, because at the present, the Bill has not been adopted.
Keywords: Surrogate maternity; reproductive ethics; law regulation.
