nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180430-094141 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180428s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180430-094141 doi eng 342 23 Violante, Teresa Author aut (Not) Striking Down Surrogate Motherhood in Portugal Violante, Teresa Verfassungsblog 2018-04-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last Tuesday, the Portuguese Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional several provisions of the regime on surrogacy, as well as the prohibition to disclose the identity of gamete donors and surrogate mothers. The most striking aspect of this decision, however, is not what the PCC ruled unconstitutional but rather what it expressly accepted as being constitutionally valid. The clear messages sent by the PCC to the legislature show a careful self-repositioning of the Court in its role as a constitutional interpreter in a democracy. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Leihmutter Portuguese Constitutional Court Surrogate Motherhood Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/not-striking-down-surrogate-motherhood-in-portugal/ raw object