Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine

The Korean Society for Reproductive Medicine (대한생식의학회)
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Current issues on a standard for surrogate pregnancy procedures

  • Ha, Jung-Ok (Institute for Gender Research, Seoul National University Social Science College)
  • Received : 2012.09.03
  • Accepted : 2012.09.14
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

While Korea does not have any legal statement on surrogacy, treatments are carried out in practice. As a result, every Institutional Review Board (IRB) of each fertility clinic faces an ethical predicament in reviewing each case. There is a need to arrange the institutions' own standards of surrogate pregnancy procedures before the establishment of national or professional regulation. This article examines the legal, social, and medical issues of surrogacy to help IRBs to judge their cases.

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