Otras consideraciones: ¿es turismo?
Medical Tourism in general and fertility tourism specifically is not without controversy. Traditionally tourism refers to traveling for recreational purposes and the fertility tourist is looking for something exotic, strange, and possibly illegal in their own community. The restrictions at home may not necessarily be laws but may include personal moral convictions by health care providers, institutional policy guidelines and committee recommendations. In countries without legislation on assisted reproduction, each doctor and clinic can decide autonomously whether or not to provide a certain type of treatment and/or office service to a certain type of patient.
In some countries surrogates can be compensated, while in other locales it is prohibited. There are places where there is a lack of laws or guidelines for surrogacy resulting in custody battles. In countries where surrogacy is banned there are instances where the intended parents go to different destinations but have difficulty bringing back their new children to their home country. In countries where commercial surrogacy is prohibited, there may be an allowance for “altruistic surrogacy” and may include contracts to the involved parties.
Many countries express religious concerns surrounding surrogacy that include lineage and heritability, motherhood and marital fidelity. Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and other Christian denominations outside of Catholicism generally approve of surrogacy but have concerns.
Judaísmo: concerns regarding legitimacy. Most tend to believe that motherhood belongs to the person who actively delivers the child.
Hinduismo: views infertility as a curse to be cured by any means necessary, generally approving surrogacy.
Islam: concerns center on the importance of and confusion of lineage and inheritance.
Other Christian denominations have a wide variety of news from encouraging surrogacy as it shares the blessing of parenthood to viewing surrogacy as a means of confused identity in a child and a disruption in traditional marital practices and procreation. In some countries, religious beliefs have led to legal bans on surrogacy (i.e., Costa Rica).
¿Quién quiere un bebé?
Celebrities want babies. Paris Hilton decided on IVF, determining it was “the only way” she could ensure that she could have “twins that are a boy and a girl.” Hilton learned of IVF from friend Kim Kardashian who had two children via surrogate and stated that she was “happy that she told me that advice and introduced me to her doctor.”
Other celebrities selecting fertilization methods include Amber Heard who wanted a baby “on my own terms,” welcoming Oonagh Paige Heard via surrogate. Queer Eye star Tan France and his husband Rob had their child via surrogate (April 2021). Anderson Cooper welcomed his first son Wyatt via surrogate and Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick welcomed their twins, Tabitha and Marion, via surrogate (2009).
Hay un global demand for fertility services – primarily from wealthy and sophisticated patients who scan the world for a place willing to provide surrogacy services for older or non-traditional couples as well as those who are infertile, single, or identify as part of the LGBTQIA community. It also includes those who would like to employ new techniques to select a child of a desired sex, to avoid the transmission of hereditary diseases, or to conceive a “savior sibling” capable of providing a bone marrow transplant to a family member whose life depends on finding a compatible donor.
Approximately 20,000 to 25,000 women (often accompanied by their partners) seek cross-border assisted reproductive technology (ART) services.
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- It also includes those who would like to employ new techniques to select a child of a desired sex, to avoid the transmission of hereditary diseases, or to conceive a “savior sibling” capable of providing a bone marrow transplant to a family member whose life depends on finding a compatible donor.
- Other Christian denominations have a wide variety of news from encouraging surrogacy as it shares the blessing of parenthood to viewing surrogacy as a means of confused identity in a child and a disruption in traditional marital practices and procreation.
- There is a global demand for fertility services – primarily from wealthy and sophisticated patients who scan the world for a place willing to provide surrogacy services for older or non-traditional couples as well as those who are infertile, single, or identify as part of the LGBTQIA community.
