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(ARES) Legal Method Bill Proposal
(ARES) Legal Method Bill Proposal
2015 – 12859
AN ACT
PLANNING
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Families are the core of the nation. Filipino partners, married or unmarried, give birth to
children in the rate of 16 births per 1000 people. Filipinos are accustomed to the general way of
bringing a child into this world: through natural process of conception and giving birth from the
mother’s womb. However, some Filipino couples are physically incapable of doing so. There are
alternative methods of conceiving a child of their own, without the female partner undergoing
“substitute”, or a third party. In this procedure, couples may now avail of having a genetic child
of their own, without the possible expense of the female’s life. However, surrogacy in the
Philippines are in a stale mate; currently, it is neither prohibited, allowed, nor regulated. Hence,
this bill shall recognize surrogacy as an acceptable alternative to the natural method of bringing a
child to this world. Also, this bill shall also provide guidelines towards the regulation of
PLANNING
Section 1: Title. This Act shall be known as the “Surrogacy Act of 2019”.
Section 10: