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No. 2 (2024): Prawo i Więź Nr 2 (49) 2024

Surrogacy in wartime

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36128/PRIW.VI49.595
Submitted
4 January 2023
Published
24 May 2024

Abstract

Law has the role to react and keep up with technological advancements, to ensure protection of the subjects involved, to stress the enforcement of some important values, in order to prevent abuse. Assisted reproductive techniques and surrogacy are no exceptions, as they touch upon many sometimes opposing interest, which are put on one scale. There is no clear consensus on this topic which often causes endangerment, legal uncertainity of the subjects involved. This lack of stability reached its peak in the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, where the surrogacy ,,business” used to be a flourishing. Even before the war, there were occurances of jeopardized values, which only intensified. This article sheds light on the legal and ethical complexity of ART and surrogacy, what is the motivation for couples to enter into surrogacy arrangements in Ukraine, and what additional obstacles the war has brought in this practice.

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