Gestation by substitution. Need for a legal response to a social reality

Abstract

Gestation by substitution is a technique of assisted reproduction by which a woman commits to carrying a child so that one or several people can become the parents of it. The objective of this work is to analyse: First: the general issue and the registration of the children in the Civil Registry. And second: the main effects and the recognition, by the jurisprudence of the labour courts, of the right to maternity benefit in the cases of surrogacy.