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Surrogacy legislation in different countries
• InEurope,surrogacyisnotallowedintheNordiccountriesandnotin Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain
• Altruistic,butnotcommercial,surrogacyisallowedinBelgium, Greece, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
• PolandandtheCzechRepublichavenolawsregulatingsurrogacy
• CommercialsurrogacyislegalinGeorgia,Israel,Ukraine,Russia,
India and California
• OnlyaltruisticsurrogacyallowedinmanyUSstates,Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
Brunet L, et al A Comparative Study on the Regime of Surrogacy in EU Member States. 2013. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies.
Gestational surrogacy prohibited in the Nordic countries
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Gestational surrogacy
Prohibited since 1997
Prohibited since 2007
Prohibited since 1996
Prohibited since 1987
Prohibited since 1988
National Ethics Committee View
Negative (2008)
Positive in restricted cases (2011)
NA
Majority negative (2011)
Majority positive in restricted cases (2013)
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