Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology

Resources

Guidelines

Guidelines on Surrogacy Arrangements involving Providers of Fertility Services

Date of publication: November 2007
Re-released November 2008

• Surrogacy involves a woman agreeing to carry a child for another couple on the basis that she will pass the child to them to raise from birth*. The woman who will carry the child is called the ‘birth mother', ‘surrogate mother', or ‘gestational surrogate'.

The attached guidelines provide details of the requirements and expectations regarding altruistic surrogacy arrangements using providers of fertility services.

Document availability

The guidelines are available for download below in Word and PDF format:

Guidelines on Surrogacy Arrangements involving Providers of Fertility Services (Word, 101 KB)

Guidelines on Surrogacy Arrangements involving Providers of Fertility Services (PDF, 80 KB)


Footnote:

* Definition from the report of the Ministerial Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Assisted Human Reproduction: Navigating our Future , Wellington, 1994, paragraph 7.2.