For everyone who is looking to go ahead with a surrogacy inThailand, it's highly recommended to understand the legal framework and cost
structure beforehand. Surrogacy isn’t a short term process and it may require
you to give some good time and effort down the line.
Is surrogacy legal in
Thailand?
Thailand used to be the most favored surrogacy hub for most
of the intended parents across the globe but the surrogacy process is recently
been banned by the Thai government for all the foreign nationals in the
country.
Surrogacy stands illegal for all the International parents
in Thailand according to the federal law passed in the year 2015. Furthermore,
the process is only permissible for married heterosexual couples in the country
via various surrogacy agencies in Thailand.
There's a provision in a similar decision that demands one
of the spouses to be a Thai national and
they must have been married for at least 3 years in the due process.
On the other side, single and same-sex parents of any
gender, community, or nationality are totally prohibited from seeking surrogacy
in Bangkok. That further implies that no gay surrogacy Thailand is allowed
within the legal territories of the country
What was the core the reason behind the prohibition of surrogacy in Thailand?
It was in the wake of two awful incidents way back in the
year 2014 that prompted the prohibiting of surrogacy by the military government
in Thailand. The most talked-about one of the two controversies was the ' Baby
Gammy case'
Everything began when an Australian couple went to Thailand
to pursue surrogacy with the assistance of the Thailand surrogacy agency and
got twins out of a surrogate mother in Thailand
in the process. However, the couples came back to their country with
only one kid while leaving the other one with the surrogate mother.
Inevitably, it was been discovered that the other kid left
with the surrogate mother was found to be diagnosed with Down syndrome. Well,
this is where the surrogate mother chose to apply for the parental authority of
the other kid in the court.
On the other side, the Australian couples said that they
were just been educated about the one-kid by the surrogacy agency they dealt
with. Moreover, the solicitation raised by the surrogate mother for the authority
of the other kid was denied by the court in the wake of the agreement signed
between the pgd Bangkok and the
Australian couples.
In any case, it was been later discovered that the couple
was engaged with various child trafficking cases and the man was additionally
got detained in his country for similar reasons.
When this went to the spotlight and notice of the Thai
government, they quickly passed a decision forbidding all sort of surrogacy
practices in Thailand for the International parents.
Bottom line
To this date, efforts are in line to restore a legitimate
structure for the surrogacy process while removing a similar restriction on
surrogacy. In any case, the intended parents need to wait for some more time in
order to pursue surrogacy in Thailand.
