Gestational Carrier or Surrogacy
A Gestational Carrier is a woman who agrees to have a couple’s fertilized egg (embryo) implanted in her uterus. The gestational carrier carries the pregnancy for the couple, who usually has to adopt the child.The carrier does not provide the egg and is therefore not biologically (genetically) related to the child.
What's New at ASRM
- Legislative Updates and Fertility Fraud Update
- Better obstetric and neonatal outcomes result when gestational carriers come from agencies that follow ASRM guidelines
- ASRM Asks State Department for an International Travel Exemption for Newborns Born via Gestational Carriers During COVID-19 Pandemic
- HFEA Changes Surrogacy Rules on Exporting Sperm, Eggs and Embryos from U.K. to U.S.
- The Impact of a Pandemic on International Surrogacy: An Interview with ART Attorneys Margaret Swain and Nidhi Desai
- SART Releases Podcast Series for Those Trying to Build a Family
- ASRM Partners with FertilityIQ to Offer Free Courses to Members' Patients
- Update #1 Released to the ASRM Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
Resources
- Gestational Carrier vs. Surrogate
- Portadora gestacional sustituta (Gestational carriers)
- Gestational carrier 妊娠载体（代孕人或代理孕母
- Prevención de conflictos en la reproducción con donante (Avoiding conflict in third-party reproduction)
- Cuidado reproductivo fronterizo (Cross-border reproductive care)
- Cross-border Reproductive Care
- Gestational Carrier (Surrogate)
- Third-party reproduction 第三方生殖
- Reproducción con donante (Third-party reproduction booklet)
- Temas de asesoramiento para personas homosexuales que buscan tecnologías de reproducción asistida (Counseling issues for gay men and lesbians undergoing ART)
- Avoiding Conflict in Third-party Reproduction
- What Is A Gestational Carrier & Who Needs One?
Publications
- Ethics Webinar: Cross-Border Reproductive Care: Current Trends and Continuing Dilemmas
- Ethics Webinar: Dilemmas in Third-Party Reproduction: Perspectives in Medicine, Law and Ethics
- Consideration of the gestational carrier: an Ethics Committee opinion (2018)
- Provision of fertility services for women at increased risk of complications during fertility treatment or pregnancy: an Ethics Committee opinion (2016)
- Misconduct in third-party assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion (2018)
- Using family members as gamete donors or gestational carriers (2017)
- Recommendations for practices utilizing gestational carriers: a committee opinion (2017)
- Micro-presentation: Consideration of the gestational carrier
- Micro-presentation: Misconduct in third party assisted reproduction
- Cross-border reproductive care: an Ethics Committee opinion (2016)
- Increased maternal cardiovascular mortality associated with pregnancy in women with Turner syndrome (2012)