6. Is access to surrogacy subject to specific criteria?
a. medical criteria (e.g. infertility of the intended parent(s)) Yes
b. other criteria (please specify) Yes
Fertilization centers which agree to practice medically assisted procreation with a surrogate mother currently pose their own terms. Eg: one center limits acceptance to medical indications (e.g. patient with significant heart defect) and to surrogacy without oocyte donation or sperm, which excludes homosexual couples. But another Belgian fertilization center accepts homosexual couples.
Thus the criteria may vary from one center to another (e.g. procedure for screening of the surrogate mother; limited access for Belgian applicants).