Legislative status of Gestational surrogacy in (some) European countries

by giuliomagnifico

25 comments
  1. The source of the data is in italian, you can translate it to better understand. Since it’s a bit difficult to retrieve all the correct legislative status, there are some missing countries.

    Source and world map: [https://www.associazionelucacoscioni.it/mappa-leggi-gpa](https://www.associazionelucacoscioni.it/mappa-leggi-gpa)

    Translated: [https://www-associazionelucacoscioni-it.translate.goog/mappa-leggi-gpa?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp](https://www-associazionelucacoscioni-it.translate.goog/mappa-leggi-gpa?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp)

  2. “Gestational surrogacy”. What a difficult word. In Dutch it’s just “draagmoeder” = “carry mother”

  3. Years ago I watched a documentary about Israeli couples and surrogacy. They chose surrogate mothers in India (If I remember correctly) because they were cheap but eggs were from American women because they didn’t want ‘dark’ babies. Terrible.

  4. I will never not point out that Sweden and Finland look kind of phallic without Norway

  5. There’s no law in Belgium, but it’s allowed with certain conditions.

  6. How many times do we have to tell you, you CANNOT remove Norway and leave Sweden and Finland alone together!

  7. Interesting, I thought we were the only assholes to make it illegal.

  8. There are laws in the Netherlands about how you can find a surrogate. Commercial surrogacy is not allowed. It’s kind of how coffee shops get their product, gotta do it discreetly. I guess the goal of the law is that people would do it out of altruism, like relatives or friends mostly, instead of allowing more exploitative types of surrogacy. It’s very difficult to go abroad for it, too, or bringing the baby back legally is difficult.

  9. What is the difference between yes or no without law?! If there is no law prohibiting it, how can it be not allowed? Wouldn’t both yes and no without law result in the same thing: allowed by default?

  10. I’m sorry how tf are y’all calling it human trafficking???

  11. Cock and balls, should it be allowed? No (without law).

  12. In Italy it has become a universal crime, so we can be condemned even if we do it abroad… fuck Meloni

  13. I’ve heard of it happening in Belgium so I’m guessing there is some way of doing it.

  14. In Italy the government declared it “crime against humanity”.

  15. The problem comes when in countries like Spain, where gestational surrogacy has been banned since 2005, people go to countries where is allowed and come back with the child adopting him through the regular adoption process, impeding in most cases by the baby’s original country, to verify the nature of the adoption and making it almost legal for anyone who can afford it.

  16. Dutch here. So basically there are only a few European countries that allow this? I thought it was common practice! You hear the term used quite often. Don’t know if it’s practiced often as well though, but it’s a super familiar term.

  17. RIP Slovenia, Luxembourg, Romania, Czechia and Slovakia. You were apparently missed

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