The Legalization of Child Protection by Supported Reproductive Technologies in Thailand

Abstract

This research aimed to study factors involving the legislation of law protection of children born from supported reproductive technologies in Thailand, and could be concluded as follows: 1) Problem trend was resulted from lack of legal provision, therefore it caused problems about legitimate parental rights, commercial surrogacy, as well as medical ethics. 2) Policy trend had occurred when the lack of child status and parenthood of the couple who were government officers. The case had received wide public attention and had been delayed to carry on for 16 years, through five government administrations and passed two referendums up until B.E.2014. 3) By political trend, the political situation was stabilized because of military revolution that resulted in rapid issuance of the law to promulgation