Download ABSTRACT This bachelor`s paper is divided into two parts

ABSTRACT
This bachelor's paper is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. Theoretical
part is dedicated to the women's infertility, possible causes, and psychological
aspects of unability to give a birth and raise up own biological baby. The paper also
shows possible treatment options according to the newest experiences of modern
centres of assisted reproduction. Special part is then focused on surrogate maternity
as an alternative treatment of infertility, it's characteristics, indications and
complications. Main emphasis is placed on moral, ethical and psychosocial aspects,
but also takes account of law requirements. Closing theoretical part I stated
surrogate maternity options in abroad.
The goal of this paper is to outline aspects of surrogate maternity with ethical and
moral questions closely connected to this controversial topic. A significant part of
the paper pays attention to mothers themselves - to motivations and feelings of
both, surrogate mothers and infertile couples.
Practical part introduces issues of surrogate maternity and based on opened, semiclosed and closed questions compares different attitudes of surrogate mothers from
the Czech Republic and mothers from the United States of America.
Outcomes obtained from the questionnaire showed that most of surrogate mothers
are about 30-35 years old, most of them have at least one biological child of their
own, and in most cases had pregnancies and deliveries without significant
complications. It also emerged that financial reward was not the most important
motivation of becoming surrogate mother. There are some significant differences in
attitudes between Czech and American surrogate mothers , which is probably
caused by diverse level of medialization of the subject in stated countries.
Considering lack of informations and absence of law related to surrogate maternity
in the Czech Republic, and also the wish of Czech mothers to stay anonymous,
there was unfortunatelly insufficient sample of respondents to support quantitative
research. There are also minimal studies exploring the same topic in available
resources. Therefore this bachelor paper is more likely a research of surrogate
maternity seen by women, who had experience of being surrogate mothers.
In my opinion, it would be beneficial to follow up this research on bigger sample of
respondents to achieve more accurate results and real perspective of the surrogate
maternity.
KEYWORDS
Surrogate motherhood, surrogate mother,infertile couple, infertility, assisted
reproduction