Surrogacy: An Analysis of Regulation in some Latin American Countries

This article studies surrogacy as one of the most popular assisted human reproduction techniques in the world and focuses on Latin America to review the regulation in some countries of the region: Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. As a main finding, it is found that in none of these nations the legislative body has issued comprehensive regulations and that the only existing lights to order this practice have been given by jurisprudence and, on some occasions, pronouncements of administrative authorities that deal with cases. specific and lack the general and binding nature of the law. On the other hand, it was possible to find differences in the conceptualization, which ended up obeying the degree of discussion existing in the country. Finally, it reflects on the absence of regulation in surrogacy and possible violations of the rights of the actors involved.