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Russian singer Ala Pugacheva rejoices with her son, who was born to her and her husband Maxim Galkin from a surrogate mother. And Pugacheva’s daughter was also taken away and was born to a surrogate mother.
Surrogacy is still prohibited in Lithuania, but Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys claims that it is also time for a change in our country. “In Lithuania, changes must take place as in Western countries, they will. They will be debated, but they will happen,” he says.
Some of the conservative and peasant elders are horrified by Dulkis’ speeches. “Turn a woman into a takeout factory. This barbarism is incomprehensible. If you think you are progressive, congratulations, you are following the path of Russia, ”says Seimas member, conservative Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė.
“I am shocked. The choice of the Minister is very strange. The international community is controversial about surrogacy, there are resolutions of the European Parliament, where the EU states are urged to pay attention to the dangers”, emphasizes Agnė Širinskienė, member of the Seimas and peasant.
The Ministry of Health has prepared amendments to assisted reproduction and proposes to legalize surrogacy in Lithuania, to allow women to conceive, conceive and give birth to a foreign child using another pair of gametes or an embryo. The surrogate mother who gives birth must renounce any right to the child and pass it on to the parents. Such suggestions confuse some of our Vilnius residents, while others are in favor of such assistance for women unable to have children:
“It seems to be trafficking, it is something delicate, like the abortion law.”
“It doesn’t seem like I need it.”
“It is not necessary, we do not like that.”
“There are mothers who give birth normally, there will be those children.”
“Need, not everyone can have”.
“People who cannot have children need help.”
The draft of the Ministry of Health proposes to legalize only unpaid surrogacy and only in cases where surrogacy services are requested by women who cannot have children alone due to illness or if pregnancy and childbirth would put them on hold. risk.
“All these issues are in the discussions of experts and working groups. We are going to discuss with associations, communities, relevant specialists,” says A. Dulkys.
The minister has the support of Rimantas Gricius, director of the Fertility Center of the Santara Clinics, who stated that there should not be many cases of surrogacy in Lithuania.
“The need is not very high, there will be patients like that among themselves for a year, but the need is real. Those who had oncological diseases, lost the uterus, can not be taken. Or there are serious rare diseases for which pregnancy is contraindicated, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, vasculitis ”, he adds.
If commercial surrogacy is prohibited in Lithuania, according to the director of the Fertility Association, it is likely that the surrogate mothers are relatives, mothers or sisters, and Lithuanians should not look for surrogate mothers abroad, for example in Ukraine, where clinics officially offer surrogacy services. for 40-60 thousand. euros.
“These children already exist in Lithuania, it would be nice if they didn’t have to go abroad, in a close environment, in our oppressed society, a close person could take a woman and give birth to a child,” explains Rūta Vyšniauskaitė- Marcinkevičienė , director of the fertility association.
Whoever really wants to have children, but cannot have them, let them adopt, say opponents of surrogacy. Otherwise, if surrogacy is legalized and the recognition of a different child than the one who gave birth is allowed, the illegal trafficking of women and children will also occur, and homosexual couples will also begin to claim the rights of these children. .
“It is not women who are interested, but same-sex couples. Men who cannot give birth may be related to that interest,” says V. Aleknaitė-Abramikienė.
The Ministry of Health to legalize not only surrogacy, but also assisted reproduction for unmarried couples. Representatives of the rulers also registered this week a proposal to abandon the permanent storage of embryos. So that the embryos are stored for at least two years from the start of assisted reproduction, but not more than 10 years, unless the spouses or partners request a longer period.
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