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RECOMMENDATIONS ON SURROGACY

FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1989

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COMPLICATED

SOCIAL AND MORAL 19SUES IN VIEW OF THE VERY

ONLY GENETIC INVITRO CONNECTED WITH GENETIC SURROGACY,

IS THE COMMISSIONING FERTILISATION IVF SURROGACY (THAT COUPLE CONTRIBUTE BOTH THE EGG AND SEMEN FERTILISED THE SURROGATE MOTHER), SHOULD BE ALLOWED SUBJECT CONTROL.

OUTSIDE то STRICT

COMMERCIAL SURROGACY SHOULD BE BANNED IN HONG KONG.

INFERTILE

TREATMENT IS

GENETIC IVF SURROGACY SHOULD ONLY BE ALLOWED FOR MARRIED COUPLES WHERE NO ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL POSSIBLE.

A CHILD OF

A WOMAN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN MARRIED NOR HAS HAD HER OWN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO ACT AS A SURROGATE MOTHER.

BOTH PROPER PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING ON LIKELY PROBLEMS FOR

SURROGATE BEFORE, DURING THE COMMISSIONING COUPLE AND THE AND AFTER THE SURROGACY SHOULD BE MADE AN INTEGRAL THE PROCESS.

RECOMMENDATIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

PART OF

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY HUSBAND SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN PRESENT FORM. SINCE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY DONOR HAS BEEN PRACTISED IN HONG KONG FOR OVER 15 YEARS AND TO BE ACCEPTABLE. IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.

IT'S

(AID) SEEMS

SHOULD BE PROTECTED THE LEGITIMACY OF CHILDREN BORN BY AID BY LEGISLATION. THE COMMITTEE FAVOURS LEGISLATIVE MEASURES ACT ALONG THE LINES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FAMILY LAW REFORM 1987.

THE ACT, A CHILD BORN AS THE PURSUANT TO SECTION 27 OF

WOMAN BY RESULT OF THE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF A MARRIED THE SEMEN OF A DONOR SHALL BE TREATED IN LAW AS THE CHILD OF THAT THE MARRIED WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND. UNLESS IT IS PROVED THE HUSBAND DID NOT CONSENT TO THE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION,

IN

THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF SEMEN DONORS SHOULD BE MAINTAINED ALL CASES.

AN AID CHILD SHOULD BE GIVEN THE RIGHT REACHING

AGE THE

OF MAJORITY, RELEASED SHOULD INFORMATION TO BE CONFIRMATION OF PERFORMANCE OF THE

OF VERIFICATION ON CURRENTLY,

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THE

BE

RESTRICTED

סין

THE

AID PROCEDURE ON HIS

MOTHER.

PARTIES NO OTHER

SHOULD BE

GIVEN ACCESS TO SUCH

VERIFICATION.

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