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Throughout the history there have been many different reason for surrogates to be involved in the process of having children. The laws vary from state to state about how the process of surrogacy works, and it is even banned in some locations of the United State (Spivack, 2012). Surrogacy is not a new process in the late twentieth century African American women were surrogate for their slave masters giving birth to children to become property of the masters (Spivack, 2012). As of the 1978, there are two type of surrogacy possible known as full surrogacy and partial surrogacy (Spivack, 2012). Partial surrogacy (traditional surrogacy) is when the father’s sperm is implanted in the surrogate mother using her own egg (Spivack, 2012) (Surrogacy, …show more content…
and Mrs. Fiburnacci neither of them donated genetic material for the pregnancy known as gestational surrogacy using a donor embryo due to genetic condition that caused a debilitating anemia (Tong, 2000). However, they contracted a surrogate to create the child through the use of donor egg and sperm for the use in gestational surrogacy. In a similar case Buzzanca v. Buzzanca the couple also used a surrogate to produce a child, and later divorced and no longer wanted the child. The initially ruling by the court determined that there was not any lawful parents of the child, but upon supreme court ruling the parent were obligated to care for the child (Oshunrinade, 2012). The court followed the same principle that makes the a father the lawful father of a child unrelated to the him after artificial insemination of one’s wife, which should apply to both parent after agreeing to the procedure of gestational embryos surrogacy (Oshunrinade, 2012) The court determined that because the medical procedure of artificial insemination was initiated and consented to by the intended parents then they were responsible for said child (Oshunrinade, …show more content…
According to the similar case neither the surrogate, sperm donor, or egg donor have any responsibility to the child (Oshunrinade, 2012) As for the agency they are supposed to provide support for both sides of the surrogacy making sure that the family wanting the child are stable and the surrogate complies with the plan of surrogacy turning over the child (Surrogacy A. f., 2015). The professional involved are healthcare provides that makes them the individuals to care for the health of the patients involved, and not the direct not the outcomes of the surrogacy process. That being said they are responsible to call social service if they see neglect, but that are not responsible for whether or not the intended parent want the child produced from the

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