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Notes
- We use UT to refer to uterine transplantation in general.
- We use UTx to specifically refer to the Swedish uterine transplantation
project. - Absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) includes women who have
no uterus either from birth, as part of the Mayer–Rokitansky–Kuster–
Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, or after hysterectomy for cervical malig-
nancy or due to severe obstetric bleeding that necessitate removal of the
uterus. According to Brännström, this includes an approximate 4500
AUFI women in the Nordic countries. - In Denmark and Sweden surrogacy exists within a grey zone, when legal
regulations make purchasing commercial gestational surrogacy impossi-
ble. Most notably in Denmark the commissioning parents are violating
the Danish law against advertising and arranging surrogacy. It is illegal
for Swedish medical clinics to facilitate surrogacy, though not explicitly
illegal for commissioning parents to arrange surrogacy abroad. Most
commissioning parents experience vast legal difficulties bringing the
child home and naturalising the child. - All quotes from Danish and Swedish articles have been translated into
English by the authors. - The Danish law on assisted reproduction 2013, §11. Available from
https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/r0710.aspx?id= 167647 [15 August
2016].
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