Evaluation of Non-Financial Rights of Surrogate Mother in Surrogacy

Using another woman's uterus for childbearing of infertile couples is carried out with their sperm and eggs which are transferred to another woman’s uterus. This method of therapy involves a contract which is led series of rights and obligations for both parties. Rights of contract parties are dividable to financial and non-financial rights. This study is aimed at non-financial rights of surrogate mother. She, in nowadays’ Iranian legal custom, does not have any right to visit the baby and any right of breastfeeding. Opting kind of delivery is another disputable right for surrogate mother which is usually ignored. Moreover, legal experts have not a single view point about surrogate mother’s right to abort or to refuse abortion. These matters are more focused in this study.