Requirements to become a surrogate in Russia

Article 55 of the Federal Law Health protection normative of the Russian Federation establishes the requirements for women who wish to become surrogates voluntarily. According to Section No. 10:

A surrogate mother can be a woman between twenty and thirty-five years, with at least one healthy child of her own, in a good health, who signs an obligatory written informed consent for voluntary medical intervention. A woman who is officially married are allowed to become surrogate mother only in compliance with a written consent of the spouse. A woman is not allowed to be engaged as both a surrogate and an egg donor in one and the same surrogacy arrangement.