Thailand through a Bill passed by the National Legislative Assembly on Thursday outlawed commercial surrogacy.
Surrogacy entails another woman carrying and giving birth to a baby for the couple who want to have a child.
An official report on Friday in Bangkok, said the Bill also prohibited non-Thai couples and all same-sex couples from accessing any surrogacy services in the Kingdom.
It said under the new law, only married heterosexual couples with at least one Thai partner can use surrogates, adding that it must be of free service.
Thailand previously had no law governing surrogacy, making the country a destination for foreign couples seeking a surrogate mother.
The country re-examined the laws following a public outcry in 2014 when a surrogate baby with Down’s syndrome was left with his surrogate mother by an Australian couple who took the girl’s brother.
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Commendable! Let other nations learn.
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine how people could go in India or Thailand to have a children. How could they trust future child to a dirty Indian woman with numerous diseases. I know that people went there because of low prices. But rich people… I think there are enough variants even for low price. In the beginning, we had not really paid attention to the fact that pregnancy did not come but after a year of failures we began to think about it. We started to visit doctors, passed various medical tests and went through different examinations. And one day doctor voiced me diagnose – it was severe endometriosis and infertility. We kept our end up: used various methods of both traditional and alternative medicine. I was treated with the help of hormonal preparations. During six months, doctor had caused complete absence of menstrual periods using strong medicines and endometriosis atrophied on its own. But I went through serious side effects after such treatment. After that, I experienced a surgical treatment. Doctor used laparoscopy procedure and removed endometriosis. Nevertheless I couldn’t get pregnant. In addition I tried homeopathic herbs. To our deep regret my health condition became worse after all these treatments and I was not pregnant. We understood that time is getting on and we need to decide what we will do in such situation. Surrogacy was the only chance for us to become happy parents. We studied all the information about the countries where such program is conducted, pricing and so on. As a result, we decided in favor of Georgia, it met us with a great comfort, beauty and hospitality. In the New Life clinic we found none defects. There we found high level of medical treatment, European service, and attentiveness of staff to patients, good doctors. Everything was perfect but there was no result... In a word, being disappointed in three clinics, we realized that we just cannot financially be able to buy more than one attempt. And we found Ukrainian BioTexCom Centre. The price pleasantly surprised us - we paid 30 thousand euros for the surrogacy program. But, it is important to note, this price included accommodation, meals, transfers, meeting at the airport and all medical procedures. And not a penny more! We were amazed that after the first attempt our surrogate mother got pregnant! She's a nice woman who carefully and responsibly applied to the baby she carried for us. In addition, after delivery, clinic’s manager set a question with documents at rest. That is to say, everything was done completely legally and without nerves, negative emotions and bribes. We left Ukraine at the end of the program with no problems and did all the paperwork for the child easily. Today we are happy parents!
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