TITLE:
Surrogacy in Reproductive Medicine: Ethical and Legal Analysis of the Procedure
AUTHORS:
José Antonio García Pereañez, Astrid Elena Lince Echavarría
KEYWORDS:
Reproductive Medicine, Gestational Carrier, Ethics, Legal, Colombia
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biosciences and Medicines,
Vol.4 No.6,
May
27,
2016
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.