Putin approves ban on surrogacy for foreigners

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into legislation a invoice that bans single males and foreigners from contracting girls in Russia to be surrogate moms. Numerous Russian lawmakers have said the laws is meant to guard kids.

The new rules prohibit each overseas nationals and single Russian males from using surrogacy in Russia. Such companies shall be accessible solely to married Russian residents and single Russian girls unable to bear or give beginning to kids as a consequence of medical circumstances. The ban doesn’t apply to a overseas nationwide married to a Russian citizen.

A toddler born to a surrogate mom in Russia would mechanically obtain Russian citizenship.

Senator Margarita Pavlova, one of many laws’s co-sponsors, claimed surrogacy had change into a “conveyor belt” for taking kids in a foreign country, with the destiny of round 45,000 surrogate infants unknown.

Her feedback have been echoed by Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the decrease home of Russia’s parliament, who described this kind of service as “a major illegal business venture with an estimated turnover of more than €2 billion ($2.12 billion).”

The laws was initially launched final 12 months, and accepted by Russia’s decrease home of parliament in early December. Last week, the move was greenlit by the Federation Council, the higher chamber of Russia’s parliament.

Moscow banned the adoption of Russian kids by US nationals in 2012, citing a number of high-profile instances of mistreatment and deaths of the adoptees, in addition to Washington’s sanctions on Russian residents.

Same-sex {couples} can not legally marry or undertake kids in Russia. In November, the Russian parliament handed laws criminalizing LGBTQ, pedophilia and sex-change propaganda in a bid to “protect traditional values.”

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