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Is Surrogacy banned in your country?
The 2026 map of where Surrogacy is banned or restricted, aired Oct 9, 2026.
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Banned in 18 countries
Banned since 2001. One 2025 bust ended in $25 million in fines.
Banned outright, punishable by 3 to 10 years in prison.
Surrogacy deals are void by law, and organisers can be fined.
Egg donation has been legal since 2015. Surrogacy is not.
Since 2025 it won't even register surrogacy babies born abroad.
Banned since 2007. Going abroad can cost families EUR200,000.
Banned by its fertility rules and its Penal Code.
Its assisted reproduction law bans surrogacy outright.
No IVF for a woman who plans to hand over the baby.
Banned since 2012. A 2018 reform dropped a plan to allow it.
An embryo can't be placed in any other woman's womb. Ever.
A 2019 law bans carrying a baby for someone else outright.
Doctors who help a surrogate face up to 3 years in prison.
A crime even abroad: up to 2 years in prison and a EUR1m fine.
Every surrogacy deal is void, and its top court said so again in 2026.
Banned, and its bioethics council wants to punish going abroad too.
The ban is written into the Swiss constitution itself.
Surrogacy is illegal here, even unpaid, under a 1996 law.
Everywhere not listed here, Surrogacy is allowed.
Restricted in 20 countries
Unpaid surrogacy is legal, but paying a surrogate is not.
Paying a surrogate is a federal crime. Expenses only.
Only unpaid surrogacy is legal; paid surrogacy is banned.
Altruistic only: paying a surrogate is illegal.
Once the world's surrogacy hub, paid surrogacy banned since 2021.
Paid surrogacy has been banned since 2015.
Paid surrogacy is a crime; unpaid surrogacy happens legally.
Unpaid only. A new 2025 law sorts out who the parents are.
Allowed with a judge's approval, but the surrogate can't be paid.
Unpaid surrogacy only, under a 2015 law.
Only unpaid, only for medical reasons. Paying is banned.
No law bans it, but Swedish clinics aren't allowed to do it.
No law names it, but clinics have no legal way to do it.
It isn't on the health law's list of allowed procedures.
Only a relative can carry the baby, and she can't be paid.
Legal with a court's OK, but paying a surrogate is a crime.
Unpaid surrogacy by a relative is legal. Paid surrogacy is not.
The embryo must go in the wife's own womb. No other route.
Clinics may only place a couple's embryo in the wife's womb.
Health law says the egg's mother must carry the baby herself.
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