Review of human rights, legal, ethical and religious aspects of surrogacy in Iran with an emphasis on its counseling issues

Background: The participation of a third person in the process of infertility treatment will have various human rights, legal, ethical and religious aspects.Objective: The present review, therefore, designed to examine the human rights, legal, ethical, and religious aspects of surrogacy in Iran, with an emphasis on its counseling issues.Materials and Methods: The present study reviews the findings of published papers regarding different aspects of surrogacy in Iran between 2006 and 2016. Various databases including Medline, Pub Med, CINAHL, Google Scholar, and Iranian databases of SID and Iran Medex were searched using key words of the surrogacy , surrogate mother , Third party reproduction , human rights , law , ethics and religion . Eventually, 42 retrieved articles out of 706 were selected in the review.Results: Although surrogacy has been accepted in Iranian law, but different aspects is not clear yet. There are still differences among Shiite and Sunni scholar s´ viewpoints. These whole issues increase the importance of comprehensive and continuous counseling of couples who seek this procedure as a therapeutic approach for their infertility.Conclusion: One of the strategies to solve this issue is through developing comprehensive and accessible guidelines by infertility clinics, and follow up this problems.

کلیدواژه ها:

Surrogacy ، Human rights ، Ethics ، Religion ، Counseling