Commercial Surrogacy Tourism

A research project of the Medical Travel Quality Allance MTQUA.ORG COMMERCIAL SURROGACY TOURISM How much do you pay for a SURROGATE MOTHER m another country? USA $38,000 - $120,000 Canada 635,000 - $50,000 Armenia $25,000 - $60.000 Mexico TO,000 - $45,000 Russia/Ukraine $25,000- $80,000 Thailand S45.000- $80,000 Georgía India $28.000 - $35,000 $16,000 - $35,000 All costs are stated in U.S.$ How much you pay depends on the country you choose for your surrogacy. US SO Ukraine/Russia Thailand Georgia India Mexico Armenia The United States is the most expensive, with India and Georgia the least expensive. Here is a range of costs per country reported by agencies and clinics. - US $45,000 US $15,000 - Medical fees Payment to sumogate Agency fee In Armenia, Russia and Ukraine, the medical clinic may include agency services in its fee. US $30,000 J Main costs of surrogacy tourism Cover al costs of medica evaluation. standard fertiity treatment, pregnancy monitoring and birth. Medical expenses d fee is paid at time of contract, with balance paid out monthly or at specified periods until delvery. Payments indude the fee and may indude travel, meds, phone cals, clothing alowance, babysitter, missed work compensation, etc. Contracts requre addfional payments in case of mutiple births, brecst-mik pumping, reduction of multiples, bed rest. An experienced surrogate may be paid more. Fees to the surrogate Agency fees vary according to the services provided Fees USualy cover d costs of medica evauation, standard fertity treatment, pregnancy monitoring and birth Agency fees Canada & United States More importance is given to legal contracts, screening of the surrogate for physical and emotional health, and criminal background. Here is where your money goes. Medical fees Other medical costs. Agency fees . Payment to surrogate . Attorney fees . Life insurance & other protection DNA testing &. foreign legal fees How large is the market for COMMERCIAL SURROGACY TOURISM? 2013 WORLDWIDE 180 Americans contracted for surrogales abroad. ELLE 6,000 babies delivered of SURROGATES to medical tourists 2010 1,400 SURROGATE births in the U.S. 70 U.S. surrogate births were to medicd tourists. In 2011, the reported number of surrogate births in the U.S. was 1,600. Europe Some countries prohbit commercial surogocy and dtruistic surrogacy in which a friend, relative or atruistic person agrees to cary a fertized egg to term and to give up the baby to the prospective parents at birth Ih atruistic surogocy, no fees are exchanged but the surrogate mother's expenses may be covered Commercial surrogacy is explicitly prohibited. All surrogacy is prohibited. There is no explicit law regarding surrogacy. Sorme countries leave it to their medcal council to regulate the practice. However, laws are changing.. Belgium is currently considering ifing its laws that ban commercid surrogacy. Bulgaria is considering whether to lift its ban against al surrogacy. Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom provide assistance to parents bringing infants home who were born of surrogates abroad CELEBRITIES WHO USED SURROGATES ROBERT DE NIRO JIMMY FALLON RICKY MARTIN NEIL PATRICK HARRIS KELSEY GRAMMER DENNIS QUAID ELTON JOHN GEORGE LUCAS NICOLE KIDMAN AND KEITH URBAN SARAH JESSICA PARKER AND MATTHEW BRODERICK Sources: American Society For Reproductive Medicine; A Comparative Study On The Regime Of Surrogacy in EU Member States (2013 European Parkament Committee On Legal Affairst; Mecical Travel Quality Allance. Copyright © 2014 Medical Travel Quality Alliance MQUA.ORG