The fertility clinics in the United States are recognized as the best service providers across the globe. The healthcare team working in different surrogacy clinics in the USA has years of experience in this service. The world-class infrastructure of the USA surrogacy centers can provide advanced medical treatment. According to the World Health Organization ranking, the USA got 143rd position in the low birth weight delivery incidence and 48th rank in infant mortality rate. These data declared that the USA is one of the best places for conceiving and delivering a healthy child.
In the USA overall pregnancy rate is quite high. For example, almost 85% of embryo transmission gives successful pregnancy outcomes by using a donor egg. However, the average range of pregnancy lies from 55% to 75% in most overseas clinics.
According to the CDC report, fertility clinics in the USA have the best success rate. In the USA, fertility clinics need to report the result of IVF treatment and embryo transfer which helps to indicate the success rate. The detailed available data help intended parents to review the success rate of the various clinics in the USA and based upon that they can select the fertility clinic.
In the USA, the conventional surrogacy program expense is quite high i.e. more than USD 140,000. But recently, the lower cost services introduced in the USA to match the balance of international surrogacy. This recently introduced program includes all the required surrogacy components like IVF, prenatal care before embryo transfer and delivery, legal contracts, compensation, and other logistic expenses. The recent charges vary between USD 85,000 to USD 120,000, but it does not include egg donors.
Legal acceptance of surrogacy in the United States
Surrogacy law differs from state to state in the USA. Even the law is not the same for surrogacy-friendly states. For instance, some states allow surrogacy for heterosexual couples, but others allow married couples, not single couples. Intended parents require knowing the surrogacy-friendly states and their legal framework.
The Surrogacy Agreement
The surrogacy agreement requires signing between the intended parents and the surrogate mothers. The surrogacy agreement also mentions the responsibilities and financial arrangements of both intended parents and surrogates.
Declaration of parentage
This is also known as the pre-birth order issued by the court in the 3rd trimester that instructs the hospital for inscribing the name of the intended parent’s name on the baby’s birth certificate. States under the USA where pre-birth orders require will never allow the surrogate’s name on the birth certificate until and unless intended parents request to do so.
The Post-Birth Order
Some states in the USA do not allow pre-birth orders, for those states post-birth order is used as an alternative. Based on the surrogacy agreement, the court order determines the baby’s parentage after childbirth. According to this order, the surrogate has the chance to claim her parental right. Therefore, post-birth order is not secure as pre-birth order.
Following are the State’s details depending upon the acceptance of Surrogacy in the USA:
Surrogacy Friendly |
Somewhat surrogacy friendly |
NOT surrogacy friendly |
| California, Connecticut,
Delaware |
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas | Arizona |
| District of Columbia | Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii | Indiana |
| Maine, New Hampshire | Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland | Louisiana |
| New Jersey, Nevada | Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri | Michigan |
| Rhode Island | Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota | New York |
| Vermont | New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon | |
| Washington | Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota | |
| Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, | ||
| West Virginia, | ||
| Iowa, Idaho, Montana, | ||
| Nebraska, Tennessee,
Virginia |
Ravi Sharma is a self-motivated, successful entrepreneur and has a solid experience in the fertility segment. and he is the director at ARTbaby Global (ARThealthcare). He is a pharmacy graduate with post-graduation in business administration and has 14 years of rich experience in the field of infertility segment. He loves to write about IVF, Surrogacy, and other ART (assisted reproductive technology) news, issues, and updates. He is a Pharmacy graduate (B. Pharm) and M.B.A (marketing).
His most recent success includes the successful launch of the medical tourism company, ARTbaby, which offers treatment options for infertility, egg donation, and surrogacy. He likes spending time with his family and writing about various aspects of IVF surrogacy and donating eggs.