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to discuss assisted reproduction, its ethical and legal status. Besides, in the

Asian Region, the Chinese reacted to gestational surrogacy too complicated
to define parenthood, the legal status of surrogate parties toward a child and

measure to handle an abandoned baby. The Chinese government now works

on how to control surrogacy practice and effect from complaints of forced
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abortions.

A surrogacy arrangement or agreement is the process of one woman

bearing of a pregnancy for the intended parent, either from her own egg

fertilized by the other womanûs partner or from the implantation in her uterus
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of a fertilized egg from the other. In other words, to give birth to a child

from artificial insemination or the implantation and surrenders any parental
rights to a third-party. The term of the surrogate mother means to a woman

who assists a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived.

Type of Surrogacy

Surrogacy practice can be categorized into two different types. Straight

(or traditional) surrogacy is described as the simplest and cheapest form of

surrogacy and is also known as artificial insemination by using surrogate
motherûs egg which in some countries is considered illegal. As a result, the

surrogate mother can be counted as the genetic mother and granted the right

toward the child even if the child was conceived by the surrogate motherûs

egg and intended father semen. For illustration, Thai surrogacy law does not

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WebMD. (n.d.). Using a Surrogate Mother: What You Need to Know. Retrieved August 21,
2019. from https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/guide/using-surrogate-mother#1
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Postgate, J.N. (1992). Early Mesopotamia Society and Economy at the Dawn of History.
Abingdon: Routledge. p. 105.

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