Actual Problems of Reforming Legislation on Surrogacy

The paper is devoted to the analysis and evaluation of the draft law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Regulating Surrogate Motherhood Issues” aimed at improving legislation in the field of assisted reproductive technologies. The authors highlight the provisions of the draft law that deserve support due to their focus on ensuring the interests of the child and substantiate the appropriateness of enshrining provisions under consideration in the rules of Russian law, in particular, provisions consolidating age restrictions for potential parents, the prohibition of commercial mediation in the field of artificial reproduction, etc. At the same time, the provisions that need to be changed in order to balance the interests of all participants in the emerging public relations are identified and substantiated. The authors subject to critical analysis provisions restricting access of single individuals to surrogacy technologies due to their unreasonableness, contradiction to the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and conceptual approaches to understanding the family, motherhood and childhood.

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