Open Medicine (Apr 2018)

Ethical and legal issues in gestational surrogacy

  • Casella Claudia,
  • Capasso Emanuele,
  • Terracciano Lucia,
  • Delbon Paola,
  • Fedeli Piergiorgio,
  • Salzano Francesco Antonio,
  • Policino Fabio,
  • Niola Massimo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2018-0019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 119 – 121

Abstract

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This study originated from events that occurred in 2014 in an Italian hospital, where the embryos of a couple, obtained by means of homologous insemination, were mistakenly implanted into the uterus of another woman who, along with her husband, underwent the same treatment.

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