A group of deputies led by Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy submitted to the State Duma a bill prohibiting foreigners and stateless persons from services of surrogate mothers in Russia, the Rosbalt correspondent reports.
If the law is adopted, only married couples (consisting of a man and a woman) in which at least one person has Russian citizenship, as well as single Russian women, will be able to use the services of surrogate mothers.
It is also proposed to issue Russian citizenship to children if they were born or carried by a surrogate mother on the day the ban on surrogacy for foreign citizens and stateless persons comes into force. The bill also provides that only a citizen of the Russian Federation can become a surrogate mother.
These innovations will not interfere with the departure of the child with their parents to their countries of residence, but are aimed only at creating additional mechanisms to protect the rights of underage citizens of the Russian Federation, including victims of crimes outside Russia, says the explanatory note to the project.
Source: Rosbalt
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