BANGKOK: -- The Medical Council has endorsed amendments to the announcement regarding surrogacy services by banning commercial surrogacy services and advertisements about the availability of donated eggs for assisted reproduction, of surrogate mothers or of those in need of surrogacy services.If the ban is enforced, the couples will probably go to India instead. They can also do it on the black market, but they usually want a place that will uphold their contracts.
The amended announcement means that from now on commercial donation of sperms or eggs for surrogacy services are prohibited.
Medical Council secretary-general Dr Samphan Komrith said that the amended announcement would also ban married couple of the same sex or single persons to seek surrogacy services.
Clinics or doctors who perform treatment using assisted reproduction technology will not be allowed to offer, acquire import or export of donated eggs or embryos or arrange for women to become surrogate mothers, he added.
Update: The NY Times reports:
Officials say at least 24 women out of a population of about 13,000 people have since become paid surrogate mothers. ...A few hundred births on a continent of 3 billion people is miniscule.
The baby boomlet here was just one of several bizarre and often ethically charged iterations of Thailand’s freewheeling venture into what detractors call the womb rental business, an unguided experiment that the country’s military government now says it is planning to end. ...
Officials estimate that there are several hundred surrogate births here each year, in addition to the foreign surrogates, including many hired by Chinese couples, who come to Thailand for the embryo implantation, then return home to carry out the pregnancy. ...
Officials estimate that there are several hundred surrogate births here each year, in addition to the foreign surrogates, including many hired by Chinese couples, who come to Thailand for the embryo implantation, then return home to carry out the pregnancy. ...
Commercial surrogacy has operated in a legal gray area. There are no laws banning it, but there are some hurdles. Thai law defines a mother as the person who gives birth, so in order for the biological parents to gain custody, the surrogate mother must renounce her parental rights — a concession that may require legal wrangling. ...
“Giving birth to a human is not like breeding animals,” he told a Thai newspaper.
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