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The most important terms often used in surrogacy have been explained below.
- Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman, called the ‘surrogate mother’ agrees to impregnate herself to deliver a child for a contracted party, called ‘Intended Parents’ or “commissioning parent.” Surrogacy may be either altruistic or commercial, as decided by the parties at the time of agreement.
- Traditional Surrogacy (also called ‘artificial insemination’ or ‘Intra Uterine Insemination’) is the process by which a woman, not female intended parent of the child, becomes pregnant with the sperm of the intended father through artificial insemination. The insemination is performed at the time of the surrogate’s natural ovulation. In some instances, a physician may prescribe an oral medication to the surrogate to ensure that ovulation occurs.
- Gestational Surrogacy is where the fertilised ovum is transferred to the uterus of a woman, not the female intended partner of the child.
- ART Clinic means an “Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic.”
- Artificial Insemination is the procedure of artificially transferring semen into the reproductive system of a woman. This technique comprises artificial insemination with the husband’s semen or with the donor semen.
- Intended parents are the couples or individuals who intend to have a child but are unable to procreate due to various reasons.
- Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) involves the introduction of sperm into the uterus of the woman. In IUI, specially prepared husband or donor sperm are injected into the uterine cavity via a fine cannula passed through the cervix. At this site, the sperm near the uterine entrance of each of the two fallopian tubes and thus have a shorter distance to swim in order to reach the oocyte(s) released at the time of ovulation.
- IVF-ET (In vitro Fertilisation-ET) is the fertilisation of an ovum outside the body and transfer of the fertilised ovum to the uterus of a woman. Gestational surrogacy is the process by which intended parents use either the intended mother’s own eggs or donated eggs to create a child with the intended father’s sperm or donor sperm through in vitro fertilization.
- Surrogate Mother is a woman who agrees to get pregnant with the child of the intended parents and agrees to relinquish the rights over the child after the birth of the child.
- Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman, called the ‘surrogate mother’ agrees to impregnate herself to deliver a child for a contracted party, called ‘Intended Parents.’ Surrogacy may be either altruistic or commercial, as decided by the parties at the time of agreement.
- Surrogacy with Ocyte Donation is a process in which a woman allows insemination by the sperm/semen of the male partner of a couple with a view to carry the pregnancy to the term and hand over the child to the couple.
- Zygote is the fertilised oocyte prior to the first cell division.
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