Legal and Ethical Challenges of Surrogacy Contracts Termination in Iranian Healthcare System

nfertility treatment through surrogacy as a quite new method of assisted reproductive technology requires a contract and fulfillment of the basic terms of transaction just like any other juridical acts. In this regard, further ambiguity or challenge in the implementation phase of the contract will be prevented if the terms of contract establishment and termination are registered in a written form. Surrogacy contract, which is a special kind of agreement subjected to the public terms of contracts, the written form of which is legally preferable to its oral version. The silence of the law has led to diverse procedures in infertility treatment through surrogacy in the different regions of Iran (1). Application of different methods in infertility centers and presence of inconsistent and ambiguous judicial verdicts on this issue are important factors fueling the present challenges in this domain (1). Cultural and ethical considerations are the fundamental problems that usually arise from the implementation of infertility treatment I Abstract