<p>Bangkok: Thailand is amending a law to allow foreign couples to seek surrogacy services in the country, a senior health official said on Friday.</p><p>In 2015, Thailand introduced tough regulations to control surrogacy and banned the process for foreign couples after several high profile scandals that led to a crackdown on the country's unregulated "wombs for hire" industry.</p><p>"We will amend the law that will allow foreign couples to receive surrogacy service here based on regulations," Arkhom Praditsuwan, deputy director-general of Health Service Support Department, told <em>Reuters</em>.</p>.<p>Those eligible must be legally married, regardless of their gender, and the child from surrogacy must be guaranteed protection and rights in the couple's home country, Arkhom said.</p><p>Foreign couples will be allowed to bring their own surrogate or use a Thai surrogate, and those undergoing the process will need to be vetted by a government committee, he said.</p><p>The proposed law changes will be submitted for cabinet approval later this month as part of a wider reform of regulations on surrogacy, in-vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination to allow Thais, including same-sex couples, greater access to these services as well as enhancing medical tourism, Arkhom said.</p>.Centre changes surrogacy rules; couples with medical condition can use donor gametes.<p>If the cabinet approves the amendment, it will be submitted to parliament and the senate for consideration.</p><p>Thailand made commercial surrogacy illegal in 2015 and only allows surrogacy, controlled by a government committee, for Thai couples or a Thai who married a foreigner for at least three years and who faces difficulty in having children</p>
<p>Bangkok: Thailand is amending a law to allow foreign couples to seek surrogacy services in the country, a senior health official said on Friday.</p><p>In 2015, Thailand introduced tough regulations to control surrogacy and banned the process for foreign couples after several high profile scandals that led to a crackdown on the country's unregulated "wombs for hire" industry.</p><p>"We will amend the law that will allow foreign couples to receive surrogacy service here based on regulations," Arkhom Praditsuwan, deputy director-general of Health Service Support Department, told <em>Reuters</em>.</p>.<p>Those eligible must be legally married, regardless of their gender, and the child from surrogacy must be guaranteed protection and rights in the couple's home country, Arkhom said.</p><p>Foreign couples will be allowed to bring their own surrogate or use a Thai surrogate, and those undergoing the process will need to be vetted by a government committee, he said.</p><p>The proposed law changes will be submitted for cabinet approval later this month as part of a wider reform of regulations on surrogacy, in-vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination to allow Thais, including same-sex couples, greater access to these services as well as enhancing medical tourism, Arkhom said.</p>.Centre changes surrogacy rules; couples with medical condition can use donor gametes.<p>If the cabinet approves the amendment, it will be submitted to parliament and the senate for consideration.</p><p>Thailand made commercial surrogacy illegal in 2015 and only allows surrogacy, controlled by a government committee, for Thai couples or a Thai who married a foreigner for at least three years and who faces difficulty in having children</p>