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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