Surrogacy: prices vary from 43,000 euros to 140,000 euros
Surrogacy: here are the offers and rates of Gestlife, a European agency owned by the United States. Packages start at 43,000 euros. Facts, numbers and insights
Surrogacy , or gestation for others, is a prohibited practice in Italy. The center-right government is working on further tightening. The bill which has Carolina Varchi (FdI) as its first signatory and which incorporates a text from the last legislature by Giorgia Meloni aims to extend the ban on " surrogacy " also abroad. Making surrogacy a "universal crime": in essence, Italian citizens can be punished even if they have to resort to gestation for others abroad. Heavy penalties: imprisonment from three months to two years and a fine from 600,000 to one million euros.
AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED ITALIAN COUPLES USE SURROGATE MATERNITY EVERY YEAR
Until the law is approved, surrogacy will be prohibited only in Italy, couples or singles who wish to resort to surrogacy will be able to do so abroad. According to Scienza in rete , although it is difficult to establish how many Italians use it, "it is estimated that there are at least a hundred birth certificates that are transcribed annually by the Italian registry offices". Furthermore, “ seven out of ten couples are heterosexual , the rest homosexual couples and singles”. And there are many clinics and agencies that offer their services in our country.
GESTLIFE, THE LEGAL ARM OF INVESTMEDICAL
Gestlife (whose Italian site is obscured) is a company belonging to the US INVESTMEDICAL group, a company that has its registered office in Miami , at 400 Sunny Isles Boulevard, but is present in seven countries. INVESTMEDICAL is a company dedicated to providing medical services in assisted reproduction , generic research, gene therapy, and surrogacy. Gestlife presents itself as the legal arm of INVESTMEDICAL, whose mission is to provide legal and medical advice in the process of accessing pregnancy for others. Gestlife claims to be the first company in Europe in surrogacy processes with offices in Miami (USA), Tblissi (Georgia), Tirana (Albania), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Kiev (Ukraine).
INTERECO, THE UKRAINIAN SURROGATE CLINIC
Gestlife owns the Intereco assisted reproduction clinic in Kiev. On its website it is written that “GestLife is the only company in the sector to have its own clinic in Ukraine , equipped with the most modern facilities and technologies, according to European protocols and ISO 9001. It is in this clinic that most of the our programs and that the rest of the processes are controlled in other countries, thus offering a uniform quality standard in all countries”. According to what is reported on the Intereco website, the company was founded in 2014, in its assisted reproduction laboratories " more than 200 patients with infertility problems have been treated ". In 2016, a new clinic was created in Kiev (Ukraine), where patients from China, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Switzerland are currently welcomed.
THE GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS AND INSURANCE IN THE EVENT OF THE DEATH OF THE UNBORN CHILD
Gestlife presents itself as a structure capable of following a couple (heterosexual, homosexual, single people and people with HIV) in all phases of the surrogacy process, from transporting the couple, to housing, to the possibility of being followed, 24 hours a day, by a staff of 170 including lawyers, paediatricians, psychologists, gynecologists, embryologists, nurses, assistants. And, even more, it guarantees a successful journey: "At the end of the road, there is always a child waiting for us". Gestlife also guarantees a sort of “ insurance ” in the event that the pregnancy does not have the desired outcome. “Unfortunately, after the 7th month, all the agencies consider that if the baby is born prematurely and dies, the program is over and you are left without children and without money – reads the website -. GestLife is the only company in the WORLD that covers you for this terrible eventuality, guaranteeing you the resumption of the same program you had contracted, up to two years after the birth, in the event of the death of the child for any reason or cause (including domestic accidents or road). At no cost to you. We want you to be sure you have the child you want, no matter what." And compensation is also arranged for the surrogate mother , in the event of loss of function of some organs during the gestation, and for the family of the surrogate mother in the event of her death. The compensation amounts to 10 thousand euros.
THE COSTS OF GESTLIFE'S SURROGATE MATERNITY: FROM 43 TO 140 THOUSAND EUROS
Gestlife offers Gpa packages in Ukraine, Greece, United States, Georgia and Albania. Until May 24 of last year, this group of countries also included Russia which, following the conflict with Ukraine, decided to ban surrogacy for foreign citizens. Prices vary a lot from country to country. Accessing a Gpa package in the USA has a variable cost between 120 and 140 thousand euros . These figures can rise, and not a little, in the event of medical complications because health care in the USA is not universal. In Greece the price of surrogacy starts from 66,900 euros, in Georgia from 47,200 euros and in Albania from 61,900. The cheapest package is the Ukrainian one, where it starts at "only" 43,000 euros but can easily reach 49,900 euros "depending on the difficulty of the administrative management". The Gpa "market" in Ukraine suffered a severe blow during the war but, after the first stages of the conflict, the activities resumed and Gestlife ensures that, through the "We are all children" Foundation, it will donate 5% of its revenues to Ukrainian orphanages.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/maternita-surrogata-prezzi/ on Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:02:27 +0000.