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Surrogacy for same-sex couples
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Surrogacy processes for homosexual couples
More than 55% of our parents are gay couples who, at a certain point in their lives, have received the call of parenthood.
Surrogacy for gay couples is the best way to achieve parenthood, due to the practical impossibility of a successful international adoption process. The number of surrogacy cases in Europe has surpassed the number of international adoptions in the last two years.
Surrogacy for gays is a practice that is taking place in fewer and fewer countries. Unfortunately, as the years have gone by, doors have been closing, such as in Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and, more recently, Russia.
We are not referring to the fact that in those countries surrogacy for gays or for heterosexual couples was allowed. In the countries mentioned, there was no law on surrogacy, and those who made a process here took advantage of a “legal vacuum”, with the premise that “what the law does not prohibit, is allowed”, but in those countries there was no legislation. Now there is, and it does not allow surrogacy for gays.
Although there are many countries where surrogacy can be performed, not all of them allow gay couples to perform surrogacy in those countries. This greatly reduces the list in comparison to heterosexual couples, who have more than 10 destinations where surrogacy can be performed.
Surrogate motherhood for gay couples
Since its inception, Gestlife has had the philosophy of offering all destinations for surrogacy for gay couples that were possible for the intended parents.
We research the countries for gay surrogacy, visit them, open our own offices with our own staff (we are not intermediaries), and ensure the quality of the services of the providers involved.
In this way we are not obliged to offer only one destination, like some “agencies” who have only one destination to defend tooth and nail, discouraging all other destinations, because otherwise they have no “clients”. We can really recommend the most suitable destination for the needs of each parent.
Obviously, we want you to go through the surrogacy process with us. That is what we do. But once you decide to work with us, our priorities are threefold:
- Prevent you from making legal mistakes that could jeopardise your surrogacy process.
- To guarantee your medical success; a healthy baby.
- Reduce your expenses as much as possible. We prefer that you save your money for your child, not for intermediaries.
We don’t offer you a destination, even if it is not ideal for your surrogacy process, just because we don’t have a better one, unlike many of the “agencies” that only have one destination to offer. Gestlife has 15 offices in 11 countries.
It is important, when you want to undertake a LGTBIQ+ surrogacy, to understand that there are three types of countries where surrogacy is allowed (of course, there is a fourth group, which are the countries where surrogacy is forbidden, which we will not talk about in order not to waste your time, as they do not contribute anything).
In which countries is surrogacy for gays allowed?
These countries have specific legislation that develops the right of the commissioning parent(s) to carry out a surrogacy procedure.
These laws transfer the rights over the child from the surrogate parents to the commissioning parents. These countries have laws drafted by their parliaments, or subsequently modified by rulings of high courts, such as the Constitutional Court, allowing certain people to carry out surrogacy processes.
These are the countries where a surrogacy process can be carried out with all the guarantees:
Then there are the countries, in which, without having a specific legislation, surrogacy processes are normally carried out, as their courts recognise them:
(1) There is no law, but there is ample jurisprudence that allows it.
(2) There is no law, but surrogacy processes are carried out.
(3) There is no law on surrogacy, with an important legal loophole.
(4) There is no law on surrogacy for single men, with an important legal loophole.
