Open AccessSurrogacy: A Novelty Concept in North Macedonia
Author(s) -
Daniela Antonovska,
Skopski Skopje
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
women's health open journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2380-3940
DOI - 10.17140/whoj-7-140
Subject(s) - novelty , compensation (psychology) , law , term (time) , political science , sociology , psychology , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
Surrogacy has existed since ancient times. Depending on the way of creating an embryo, two types of surrogacy differ, traditional and gestational. When it comes to monetary compensation, two types of surrogacy exist, altruistic and commercialized. A lot of questions come to light such as: Is the altruistic surrogacy a humane gesture for all contracted parties? What if the mother changes her mind? Do the babies born of surrogacy mothers have rights? In North Macedonia, surrogacy was introduced for the first time in 2014 in the amended Law on Biomedicine and Assisted Fertilization. It was a novelty having in mind that in the Law of 2008 the surrogacy as a practice was outlawed. The amended law applies the term gestational mother and provides a liberal stance, but many provisions are unclear.