Surrogacy Frauds and how to prevent it?

Surrogacy is an assisted reproductive technology to support infertile couples and single parents who are seeking a surrogate mother to give birth to a child.

Some legal and ethical issues raise questions on surrogacy practice. The previous history of exploitation of surrogate mothers and make the born child vulnerable raise questions about the breaches of their rights.

In the present situation, the surrogacy industry is growing because of increasing demand. But subsequently, it becomes a concern for the rights and protection of children and surrogates.   

Surrogacy fraud issues are mainly sounds for children sale, sexual exploitation of surrogate and children. In 2019, a thematic report on child prostitution, child pornography, and other childhood sexual abuse material were presented to the General Assembly and raise concern for safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from surrogacy arrangements. 

There is developing anxiety that the act of drawing in surrogate mothers in States with arising economies to bear kids for more well-off intended parents from different States involves power uneven characters and in this way chances for both the children and surrogate mothers. 

Key suggestions for the Member States from the report:

Adopt clear and far-reaching enactment that disallows the offer of children, as characterized by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the offer of children, youngster prostitution and child erotic entertainment, with regards to surrogacy.

Create protections to forestall the offer of children with regards to commercial surrogacy, which ought to incorporate either the forbiddance of business surrogacy until and except if appropriately controlled frameworks are set up to guarantee that the preclusion sale of children is maintained, or severe guidelines of commercial surrogacy which guarantees that the surrogate mother holds parentage and parental obligation upon entering the world and that all installments made to the surrogate mother are made preceding any legitimate or actual exchange of the child and are non-reimbursable (besides in instances of misrepresentation) and which dismisses the enforceability of legally binding arrangements in regards to parentage, parental obligation, or limiting the freedoms (for example to wellbeing and opportunity of development) of the surrogate mother.

Create shields to forestall the sale of children with regards to altruistic surrogacy, which ought to incorporate, where altruistic surrogacy is allowed, the legitimate guideline of altruistic surrogacy (for example to guarantee that all repayments and installments to surrogate mother and mediators are sensible and ordered and are dependent upon oversight by a court or other skilled position and that the surrogate mother holds parentage and parental obligation upon entering the world).

Ensure that in all parentage and parental obligation choices including a surrogacy course of action, a court or capable power makes post-birth wellbeing of the child assurance, which ought to be the foremost thought.

Closely control, screen and breaking point the monetary parts of all surrogacy plans, with a necessity for complete honesty of the monetary parts of all surrogacy courses of action to the court or skillful authority looking into the surrogacy course of action.