Assisted reproduction is governed by Articles 141–144 of the Law of Georgia on Health Care (No. 1139, 1997). IVF is permitted to treat infertility or the risk of a genetic disease, using the couple’s or a donor’s gametes or embryos, with the couple’s written consent. Donor-sperm treatment is also expressly permitted for a single woman. The law makes the couple the child’s parents; a donor or a surrogate cannot be recognised as a parent.
Article 143 permits gestational surrogacy for a couple where the woman does not have a uterus. In June 2023 the government announced that surrogacy would be limited to Georgian citizens. As of September 2026 that restriction has not been enacted: Articles 141–144 are unchanged in the latest consolidated text on Matsne, Georgia’s official legal gazette (version of 10 June 2026). The policy could still change at short notice.
The law says nothing about paying donors or surrogates, donor anonymity, the number of embryos transferred or the nationality of intended parents, so eligibility rules come mostly from clinic practice. Clinics generally accept heterosexual couples who are married or have lived together for at least a year, and exclude same-sex couples and single men from surrogacy. Clinics describe donor anonymity differently. Georgia has ratified the Council of Europe’s Oviedo Convention, whose Article 14 bars choosing a child’s sex except to avoid a serious sex-linked hereditary disease.
Geotour arranges travel for IVF, egg freezing and donor-gamete treatment only. We do not arrange, broker or promote surrogacy, sex selection or “guaranteed” baby packages, and we do not pass on clinics’ success-rate claims. If your question involves surrogacy, please speak to an independent lawyer in your home country: in some countries, including the UK and Germany, commercial surrogacy arrangements and advertising them are themselves offences.