The Parentage of Born Children from Surrogate Womb; Comparative Study in Iran and Turkey Laws

As society is constantly changing, meaning and conception or the functions of social institutions also has been changed and infertility and reproductive ways has been changed and has taken a new shape simultaneously scientific and technologic advances in different areas. The main purpose of discussion around “womb rental agreement” in this study was to consider one of the important effects of this agreement, i.e. “determining parentage of the children born by this way”. Surrogate agreement in pregnant is an agreement that is agreed between surrogate mother and infertile couples and according it the surrogate mother commit against infertile couple that the embryos from the sperm and egg in her womb reared and deliver the embryos after birth. One of the most important subjects and questions is that the child born from surrogate womb contract is attributed to which mother? Different perspectives are considered in Iran and Turkey in this regard. It seems that in spite of legislators’ silence and lack of legislations in two countries, we can conclude that Iran legal attribute the child to genetic mother (the owner of oocyte) and Turkey legal attribute the so called child to biologic mother (The holder mother).