Cross-border reproductive care: Opinions and attitudes of society towards surrogate pregnancy

Abstract

Surrogate pregnancy (SP) has acquired a prominent public profile through the bioethical, legal and media debates this cross-border reproductive practice has raised worldwide. The different social agents involved in the phenomenon frequently appeal to public opinion looking for legitimation and endorsement of their ethical and political positions on the matter. However, opinion polls occupy a marginal place in research about SP. The article presents the findings of the scoping review of 31 scientific articles (1985–2017) analysing public opinion regarding SP in 13 countries. The aim is to single out the main subtopics covered by the studies in order to identify research gaps as well as describe and analyse SP as a socio-cultural construct and ‘social problem’ which is currently situated in a complex multidimensional arena made of conflicting narratives and attitudes that divide international public opinion along each one of the identified subtopics. Additionally, the article presents the results of the survey Opinion and Attitudes of the Spanish Population towards Adoption, Fostering and Gestational Surrogacy (2018), the first conducted in Spain with a representative national sample.

Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample

“…It is a surprising result, since 65% of participants in this study did not have children. Other findings in a review conducted by Rodriguez-Jaume et al, (2021) suggest that social acceptance of surrogacy and positive attitude was not higher among people with infertility [ 13 ]. Six of the eight studies including infertile groups showed acceptance rates below the average overall value [ 13 ].…”

“…What is interesting, social acceptance of surrogacy was not higher among people with infertility. Six of the eight studies, including infertile groups, showed acceptance rates below the average overall value [ 13 ]. Research among the Spanish population has shown that 60.1% of respondents claimed that surrogacy is a “good way to help infertile or homosexual couples to have a child”[ 13 ].…”

“…Six of the eight studies, including infertile groups, showed acceptance rates below the average overall value [ 13 ]. Research among the Spanish population has shown that 60.1% of respondents claimed that surrogacy is a “good way to help infertile or homosexual couples to have a child”[ 13 ]. In addition, some researchers draw attention that the general opinion about surrogacy can also be influenced by a prevailing negative case portrayal in the media [ 14 ].…”

“…The nature of the relationship between a surrogate mother and the commissioning couple can also be complicated. In countries such as the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran, there is an opinion that surrogate mothers should be a relative of the intended parents, whereases in Greece and Japan the preference is that the surrogate mother should be a stranger [ 13 ].…”

Research on Influencing Factors of Repurchase Rate of Hainan Cross-border E-commerce Platform Based on User Experience

“…It can be seen that the repurchase rate is an important indicator affecting the platforms, created an impact model for the repurchase rate through the simulation method, and predicted the actual repurchase effect. However, the conventional analysis method for the factors affecting the repurchase rate mainly uses SPSS17.0 to obtain the in uencing factors, which is vulnerable to the impact of customer experience competition [17][18][19] , leading to high variance between the analysis groups of in uencing factors,It does not meet the current analysis needs. Therefore, this paper designs a new analysis method of factors affecting the repurchase rate of Hainan cross-border ecommerce platform based on user experience.…”