1. Occasionally couples have difficulty conceiving and
experience infertility as a result of medical
treatment, injury or, medical condition. Some couples
have used up years trying to conceive naturally or using
reproductive technologies like IVF. When those strategies
do not achieve the desired result, having a child thru
surrogacy might be an option.
2. Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman agrees to
become pregnant for the purposes of gestating and giving
birth to a child for others to raise. She could be the child's
genetic mother or not, dependent on the sort of
arrangement agreed upon.
3. Surrogacy is legal in Canada. The Assisted Human
Reproduction Act (the AHRA) is federal legislation which
sets out those activities that are permitted and the ones
that are restricted altogether.
4. Couples exploring the surrogacy option may discover that
their solution to parenthood may include a surrogate, a
gamete donor and possibly a sperm donor as well. In this
case the legal parts will include a surrogacy
agreement, donor agreements and a declaration of
parentage to ensure that intended parents' names alone
appear on your child's birth registration.
5. If a woman has had her very own children and wishes to
carry a kid for another family, becoming a surrogate
mother in Canada is a legal and viable choice.
6. There are 2 differing kinds of surrogacy, traditional and
gestational. Both are governed by the AHRA.. Intended
parents have to know the AHRA allows surrogacy but that
a surrogate may only be remunerated for her reasonable
out-of-pocket costs related to the surrogacy.
Currently, all of a surrogate's reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses might be reimbursed as the Canadianl
government has yet to fully define this area.
Compensation or an offer of compensation to a woman
for acting as a surrogate is prohibited under law and
subject to serious penalty.
7. In spite of these limitations, with the necessary safeguards
in place, it's possible to enter into a successful surrogacy
relationship which complies with Canadian laws, as
evidenced by the many children born in this way each
year.