Gestación subrogada: análisis desde la consagración constitucional de la familia

Abstract

This research pretend to analyzes a possible regulation of surrogate gestation in Colombia from the constitutional consecration of the family, as a right and as an institution. To approach the discussion, we start from the incorporation of the family in the 1991 Constitution, alike, we are mentioned laws that develop the constitutional article 42 and the treatment to the family from the jurisprudence. In the same way, it inquire relevant assisted reproductive techniques and with this, the concept of surrogate gestation and its implications, taking as a reference some international experiences. At the end, the impact that a possible regulation of surrogate gestation may have on the domestic law is evaluated from the constitutional postulates and its repercussion on the lives of children, their families and society in general.