Reply to Donor Cycle Failure - doctor recommends moving on to surrogate but that seems premature?

Forum Index » Infertility Support and Discussion

Reply to "Donor Cycle Failure - doctor recommends moving on to surrogate but that seems premature?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surrogacy is awfully expensive. You could have the surrogate here in the US and simply fly the baby home to Austria. I know couples who have done that. [/quote]

Isn't that still considered illegal? [/quote]
Why would it be?[/quote]

Many countries have laws prohibiting going abroad for surrogacy, and they can and do prohibit the[b] adoptive parents [/b]from taking the child back to their country. There are anti-surrogacy and anti-trafficking laws. You'd have to get legal counsel regarding how this might affect a visa or foreign citizenship.[/quote]

Surrogacy isn't adoption. I had my children through surrogacy. They are my genetic children, and my name is on the birth certificate as the mother, just like everyone who gave birth to their own kids. Austria can deny *their own* citizens a lot of things-- like, they can refuse to give  Austrian citizenship to a child of Austrian citizen parents, but born through surrogacy abroad. But assuming the OP is a US citizen and hires a US surrogate to have the baby in the US, and therefore has a US birth certificate listing her and spouse as the parents, and a US passport for the baby-- what is Austria going to do, exactly? 
[/quote]

[b]In many places, even in some US states where surrogacy is illegal, the legal mother is considered the woman who gave birth to the child. Hence the need for adoption[/b] by the genetic mother and of course good legal counsel depending on where the surrogate resides and where the birth takes place. But it sounds like the OP isn't interested in surrogacy.[/quote]

PP you're responding to. I assumed that OP wasn't going to illegally hire a surrogate in Michigan through Craigslist. But yes, if you're a total moron and do something illegal, and don't have legal counsel, you might have to try to adopt your own surrogate baby.

You're the sort of person who can't ever admit they're wrong about something, aren't you?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics