Cambodia’s Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday revealed details of its new guidelines on surrogacy after it banned the commercial practice in 2016.
Traditional surrogacy, also known as partial, genetic, or straight surrogacy, involves natural or artificial insemination of a surrogate.
If the intended father’s sperm is used in the insemination, then the resulting child is genetically related to the intended father and genetically related to the surrogate.
“Fathers of surrogate children will now be required to perform a DNA test to prove their paternity before a child can be handed over to its parents,’’ it said.
Report says under Cambodian family law, the birth mother is automatically recognized as a child’s parent and in most cases; her husband is legally assumed to be the father.
However, the burden of proof is now on the adoptive couple to show otherwise in…
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