Altruistic Surrogacy – Ethical Issues and Demographic Differences in Public Opinion

This is the first study of the attitude of Bulgarian people towards the allowing of altruistic surrogacy which is prohibited in Bulgaria. This study used an online survey which was active during one year (July 2010-June 2011) and which was answered by 951 respondents between 18-65 years of age. The...

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Autores principales:	Krastev R., Mitev V.
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2017
Materias:	assisted reproduction surrogacy surrogate mother same-sex couples Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:95c4ec0e09e94eacbc81066cc27d1cd32021-12-02T17:31:48ZAltruistic Surrogacy – Ethical Issues and Demographic Differences in Public Opinion0324-175010.1515/amb-2017-0018https://doaj.org/article/95c4ec0e09e94eacbc81066cc27d1cd32017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/amb-2017-0018https://doaj.org/toc/0324-1750This is the first study of the attitude of Bulgarian people towards the allowing of altruistic surrogacy which is prohibited in Bulgaria. This study used an online survey which was active during one year (July 2010-June 2011) and which was answered by 951 respondents between 18-65 years of age. The majority of them (87%) are young people between 18-43 years. The respondents are men and women with secondary, university and medical university education from the capital and the countryside. They have different marital status. The data were treated with statistical package SPSS 16. The link between the demographic characteristics (gender, age, education, marital status and place of residence) and the answers of the respondents was identified. The majority of the respondents (73%) think that the altruistic surrogacy must be allowed in Bulgaria and the main supporters are the women and the residents in the countryside – married or living with partner. Only 38% of the respondents mostly divorced middle aged persons accept the access of same sex couples to surrogacy. The majority of the respondents (53%) fear that the surrogacy may transform poor women into incubators for babies. This opinion is shared by the men, by the youngest and the oldest respondents and by the unmarried persons.Krastev R.Mitev V.Sciendoarticleassisted reproductionsurrogacysurrogate mothersame-sex couplesMedicineRENActa Medica Bulgarica, Vol 44, Iss 2, Pp 44-48 (2017)
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description	This is the first study of the attitude of Bulgarian people towards the allowing of altruistic surrogacy which is prohibited in Bulgaria. This study used an online survey which was active during one year (July 2010-June 2011) and which was answered by 951 respondents between 18-65 years of age. The majority of them (87%) are young people between 18-43 years. The respondents are men and women with secondary, university and medical university education from the capital and the countryside. They have different marital status. The data were treated with statistical package SPSS 16. The link between the demographic characteristics (gender, age, education, marital status and place of residence) and the answers of the respondents was identified. The majority of the respondents (73%) think that the altruistic surrogacy must be allowed in Bulgaria and the main supporters are the women and the residents in the countryside – married or living with partner. Only 38% of the respondents mostly divorced middle aged persons accept the access of same sex couples to surrogacy. The majority of the respondents (53%) fear that the surrogacy may transform poor women into incubators for babies. This opinion is shared by the men, by the youngest and the oldest respondents and by the unmarried persons.
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title	Altruistic Surrogacy – Ethical Issues and Demographic Differences in Public Opinion
title_short	Altruistic Surrogacy – Ethical Issues and Demographic Differences in Public Opinion
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Altruistic Surrogacy – Ethical Issues and Demographic Differences in Public Opinion

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