Current issues on a standard for surrogate pregnancy procedures.
While Korea does not have any legal statement on surrogacy, treatments are carried out in practice. As a result, every Institutional Review Board (IRB) of each fertility clinic faces an ethical predicament in reviewing each case. There is a need to arrange the institutions' own standards of surrogate pregnancy procedures before the establishment of national or professional regulation. This article examines the legal, social, and medical issues of surrogacy to help IRBs to judge their cases.
Institute for Gender Research, Seoul National University Social Science College, Seoul, Korea.
Jung-Ok
JO
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Institutional Review Board; Standard for surrogate pregnancy procedures; Surrogacy