In Vitro Fertilisation
In Vitro Fertilisation In The Surrogacy Process
If you and your partner have been trying, as so many couples do, to start your family but for some reason you are unable to conceive and bring a child to full term, in vitro fertilisation is one of the options you are no doubt going to consider. This is just one of the paths to parenthood open to you to make your dreams of a child of your own come true, and it is a path that is proving successful and has given many couples the world over the ultimate gift that one can be given: a child.
In vitro fertilisation in the surrogacy process is designed to ensure that the baby that your surrogate mother carries for you is yours genetically. As such, the law surrounding surrogacy and related issues changed in South Africa in April 2010, to one that requires the reproductive cells – or gametes – of both commissioning parents and, in the case where one parent is able to prove they are unable to provide their own gametes, then the gametes from at least one of the intending parents.
The new law has eliminated the need, as in the past, for intending parents to begin the whole legal adoption process after their baby is born. Now, your baby is considered yours – legally and biologically – from the minute he or she is born; which means that from that miraculous moment of birth, the child borne of in vitro fertilisation is yours, and you need not spend your energy wading through the adoptive paperwork process. Rather, you can now use that energy to ensure your new baby is the happiest he or she can be as your expanded family adjusts to its exciting new status.
To ensure you get it right from day one, your surrogacy agreement should be drawn up by a properly qualified surrogacy attorney, such as Adele van der Walt Incorporated. Contact us today for more information on the in vitro fertilisation process and how to start your road to parenthood.
For more information on this subject, please give us a call at (SA) or e-mail us at susann@avdw.co.za
