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and the rich cultural heritage of the people, feelings of patriotism and love for the motherland 
[3].
According to statistics, 932.2 children were born in our country in 2022, and the population in 
2022 increased by 753.6 thousand people. According to the Statistics Agency under the President 
of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as of January 1, 2023, the permanent population of our republic. 
The population is 36,024,946. The Republic of Uzbekistan ranks third in the CIS in terms of 
permanent population and first in terms of fertility. The Republic of Uzbekistan ranks 41st 
among the countries of the world in terms of population [4]. 
In the next ranking of states by the level of happiness (World Happiness Report), published on 
the International Day of Happiness, that is, on March 20, 2023, our country took 53rd place out 
of 146 states by the end of 2022 [5]. 
Over the past five years, more than ten normative legal acts related to the protection of the 
reproductive health of the population have been adopted, among the most important of which is 
the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the preservation of the reproductive health of 
citizens", adopted on March 11, 2019. According to this law, the reproductive health of citizens 
is the state of a person's health physically, mentally and socially, a state that will be associated 
with the reproductive system, the functions of this system, vital processes that determine his 
ability to give birth to a child [6]. 
Article 10 of this law defines the use of assisted reproductive technologies among the basic 
reproductive rights of citizens, and assisted reproductive technologies consist of medical 
technologies, treatment methods and therapeutic procedures aimed at achieving pregnancy, in 
which some or all stages of fertilization are carried out outside the woman's body. The procedure 
for the use of assisted reproductive technologies is regulated by the regulation on the procedure 
for the use of assisted reproductive technologies, approved by Order of the Minister of Health of 
the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 106 dated January 14, 2020 and registered with the Ministry of 
Justice No. 3217 dated February 6, 2020 [7]. 
However, no regulatory document can answer the question of how to behave if the methods 
mentioned above do not allow a family to have children. In our opinion, in this situation, 
reproductive technologies that are widely used all over the world, that is, surrogate motherhood, 
should come to the rescue. There is no official ban or permission for surrogacy in the Republic 
of Uzbekistan. In the Family Code, this concept is mentioned only in one article. In part six of 
Article 207 of this Code, it is noted that persons who have been married and have given written 
consent to the transfer of an embryo to another woman for the purpose of fetal development may 
be registered as parents of a child only with the consent of a woman who has given written 
consent to the transfer of an embryo to another woman for the purpose of fetal development. the 
birth of a child (in this norm, the concept of a blood mother was used in the sense of a surrogate 
mother. 
Surrogacy is a controversial but widely used reproductive technology. With surrogate 
motherhood, a woman consciously becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child in advance by 
prior agreement with the future (biological) parent, after giving birth, she gives it to them on the 
basis of an agreement, and this deprives her of the right to motherhood and other rights to the 
child. 
In the last quarter of the last century, the rapid development of medical technologies has led to 
the emergence of new methods of infertility treatment. However, surrogacy in the modern sense 
required the improvement of technologies such as artificial and in vitro fertilization. The first 
successful experiment on the use of surrogacy was recorded in the United States. In the period 
from 1976 to 1987, about 600 children were born to surrogate mothers in the United States, 
while in the period from 1987 to 1992, about 5,000 children were born as a result of the use of 
such assisted reproductive technology [8]. But, nevertheless, the widespread use of this method 

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