Surrogacy is gaining ground in Europe. Prohibited in France, it is released in other countries with more or less restrictive conditions.
In Portugal, the medically assisted procreation council has just approved the first recourse to surrogacy, indicates an AFP dispatch widely taken up in your daily newspapers.
The surrogate mother is 50 years old and will give birth … to her daughter’s child. The latter, aged 30, had her uterus removed following particularly severe endometriosis. The young woman had frozen her oocytes before the operation.
This type of intrafamilial surrogacy is not frequent. First, the age of the surrogate mother-grandmother often limits the possibilities. Moreover, no one today knows the psychological repercussions for a child whose biological mother is also his grandmother.
Following numerous fruitless requests, the members of the Portuguese board of PMA unanimously gave the green light to this surrogacy. The Order of Physicians must decide within 60 days but its opinion remains advisory, underlines the press agency.
It was in July 2016 that Portugal adopted a law authorizing, under conditions, the use of surrogate mothers. Surrogacy can only be conceived in cases of female sterility and no financial consideration can be considered. This is undoubtedly one of the reasons that push couples seeking help to appeal to a member of their family, sister, cousin or mother.
The various protagonists must also sign a contract providing for the provisions in the event of abortion or malformation of the fetus.
