egg donation and surrogacy are associated with risks. A network of researchers, the EU calls for the disqualification.

eggs will be booming for the fertilization and Transfer into the uterus of the surrogate mother photo: Susana Giron/imago

BERLIN taz | business with surrogate mothers prepared. In the USA, Greece, Poland, or the Ukraine, more and more fertility clinics are established. Among other things, is allowed in these countries, the surrogacy. That is to say, a strange woman from wearing for a Couple with desire to have children, the offspring. Inlet to get to the clinics from Germany. Because in this country surrogacy and the Transfer of foreign "donated" eggs are not allowed. That is a feminist network of women's advocates, the deal for years, as scientists or Activists with the new reproduction techniques.

"egg donation and surrogacy are based on social inequality and the exploitation of other women and are held under commercial conditions", - stated in the written opinion "For reproductive justice," which was presented in mid-January in a Gene-ethical network (GeN) and Bioscope event, organised in Berlin.

the reason for the opinion was to allow the political scientist Sabine Könninger of the philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar (PTHV), the claim of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the egg donation. In addition, the Leopoldina is committed to facilitate the legal Situation of the parents who want a surrogate child born abroad in Germany as your own enter. The FDP has repeatedly called for the liberalization of reproductive medicine.

recently only the FDP Bundestag Deputy Katrin Helling-Plahr for the legalization of non-commercial surrogacy said. "We should surrogacy similar to designing a live donation of organs," she told the Berliner Zeitung. Thereafter, a surrogate mother would be allowed if it is close to the desire of the parents. A payment should not be made, only an expense allowance to give it.

had The more schwangersc haftensie, the higher the pay-out

, however, shows that the so-called altruistic surrogacy or egg donation are only rare exceptions. In most cases, it comes to money. In Spain, the clinics pay for each donation of around 1,000 Euro, reported in Berlin, sociologist Sara Lafuentes Funes, the researches on the topic of Eizelltransfer in Spain and is currently at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main is working. This amount was far more than the minimum wage in Spain, it also exceeds the average monthly income (€900) of women under the age of 26.

reproduction clinics advertise with the image that young women help with their ova to the older to have a child. In the end it is only money, so Sara Lafuentes Funes. Six women are expected to donate ova. Since the law was implemented in Spain for part of a control thus does not take place, would go to a lot of women from clinic to clinic and much more eggs to give.

The extraction of oocytes is associated with health risks. Since the Reproductive medicine as well as a lot of eggs, you need to pull the women a physically demanding hormone stimulation. The removal of the ovum takes place under anesthesia.

In Spain there are now some 300 fertility clinics, reported Sara Lafuentes Funes. Most of them are on the coast, where the tourist resorts are. Although, it is mainly Locals who use their services. However, many clinics also advertise specifically to customers abroad. Websites in English are almost Standard. Also on the "wish child fairs" in Germany, the Spanish clinics are represented. Entice them, among other things, so that everything is anonymous, it is set in Spain, even by the legislator. Also in the Czech Republic and Poland egg donors are guaranteed anonymity. This contradicts the in this country and in many European countries, applicable to the right of the child to know its biological origin, write the network-women in their opinion.

On the Situation in Russia, the cultural and Social anthropologist, Christina Weis, from De Montfort University in Leicester in the UK, reported in Berlin. She has been conducting research on commercial surrogacy in Russia and has led to numerous Interviews. In Russia, the customers are coming, increasingly, from abroad. Especially after the surrogacy was regulated in some of the Asian countries are much more strict, from soft desire parents increasingly to Russia. It is noticeable, so Christina knows that in Russia, not with altruistic motivations is advertised. Surrogate mothers speak clearly of this: "This pregnancy, this is my work." And the more pregnant she already had, the higher the payment is.

For the feminist network, the "wealth gap" between countries and regions, but also within the companies, the Basis for commercial egg donation and surrogacy. These techniques were also approved in Germany, would be "social differences and economic gap" is the basis for Eizellabgaben and surrogacy.

Both techniques are associated with health risks. Surrogate mothers and egg donors would thus use health and well-being against money. "Reproductive freedom" does not include "the right of people with a desire to have children, on the body from third party access", - stated as a conclusion in the paper the network of women. Is required, therefore, that the must remain in the embryo protection act formulated prohibition of egg donation and surrogacy are. The ban should also be in the EU law included.

opposition arrived in Berlin from the ranks of the listeners*on the inside. A participant criticized the fact that in the position paper on same-sex couples as well as transsexuals, are barren, have not at all taken into account. "This is often the only way to get kids of your own".

Erika Feyerabend of Bioscope stressed that the network-women represent the "diverse forms of life together" is by no means out of the question. Here it is but with the protection of women against exploitation.