Identification and Analysis of Legal and Medical Laws and Regulations of Surrogacy
Subject Areas : Health information management
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Alborz, Iran
Keywords: legal, Surrogacy, laws and regulations, medicine,
Abstract :
Introduction: In today's world, due to the unhealthiness of the environment and the prevalence of infertility, the issue of surrogacy has become common among many societies, and it is important to deal with the laws and regulations in this area. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to identify and analyze the legal and medical laws and regulations of surrogacy.Methods: The research method is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). To carry out this research, the method of document study was used, 30 articles were selected from 506 articles, and finally, using the technique of content analysis with MAXQDA12 software, it was used to identify and analyze legal and medical laws and regulations. The statistical population in this research was all experts in the fields of law and medicine with high experience and work experience in the field of surrogacy, which was done after conducting 15 theoretical saturation interviews. The interviews lasted between 75 and 120 minutes. Finally, the basic, organizing and comprehensive themes are extracted and in the quantitative part to determine the importance of using legal and medical laws and regulations from the T-Tech method, a sample with a statistical population of 30 people 15 experts and 15 families (8 renter families and 7 renter's wife) is used.Results: In this research, about 30 articles were examined, 12 Persian articles and 18 English articles, in the method of thematic analysis using basic, organizing and comprehensive themes, 46 indicators of 4 categories and 2 dimensions in two sections of legal laws and regulations. And medicine were identified separately.Conclusion: The results showed that the legal rules and regulations include official (laws and regulations related to the constitution and jurisprudence) and customary (laws and regulations related to the lessor and lessee) and medical laws and regulations including related to the lessor of the uterus. And was a renter, and finally in the quantitative part it was also determined that all laws and regulations are of high importance, especially legal laws and regulations with an average of 4.2 are more important than medical laws and regulations with 3.9.
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