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Portugal: Surrogacy is legal

The Portugal has a law that allows surrogacy, thus making it legal in some cases. The law was promulgated by the president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa just three days after approval in Parliament where the parties of the left, excluding the Communists, and the Liberal Initiative voted in favor.

The new standard allows access to those defined as “pance surrogate»To women who do not have a uterus, who have an injury or a clinical situation which« absolutely and definitively »prevents them from becoming pregnant. You need documentation to have access to this possibility. It is not paid, but in an altruistic form.

Already in 2017 Portugal passed a surrogacy law which was later blocked by the Constitutional Court. In 2019 another text had been given the go-ahead by Parliament, but not the agreement of the parties on the question of the cooling-off period by the biological mother, and again the Constitutional Court had vetoed.

The new text provides that the pregnant have up to 20 days after delivery to decide to keep the baby with you. Whoever makes her uterus available for pregnancy should preferably be a woman who has already had children and who must have had a positive opinion from the College of Psychologists as well as from that of Doctors.

The President he promulgated this law and at the same time sent the law on euthanasia back to the Chambers asking them to clarify the reasons for which medically assisted death can be accessed. Nothing done until the next parliamentary term because Portugal is called to vote in January.

L’Luca Coscioni Association also asks in Italy for a law on solidarity pregnancy. In our country, gestation is not legal for others, prohibited by law 40. Legalizing it, according to the Association, would avoid cases such as that of the child left in Ukraine by an Italian couple.

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– Surrogacy, how many are looking for it? More and more people, not just VIPs

– We tried to rent a uterus

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