Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2720.1

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Gestational carrier: means a woman who agrees to engage in a process by which she attempts to carry and give birth to a child born as a result of an in utero transfer of a human embryo to which she makes no genetic contribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1

            A gestational carrier shall, at the time the gestational carrier contract is executed:

            (1) Be at least twenty-five years of age, and no older than thirty-five years of age.

            (2) Have given birth to at least one child.

            Acts 2016, No. 494, §1.