Surrogate Selection: Beyond Medical Screening

Modern surrogacy has achieved extraordinary advances in medicine, psychology and law. Today, Intended Parents benefit from comprehensive clinical screening, independent psychological evaluations and carefully structured legal protections that have strengthened the safety and integrity of the surrogacy process.

These established safeguards remain fundamental to every responsible journey.

Yet they naturally lead to another question.

Medical science can determine whether a surrogate is capable of carrying a pregnancy. Clinical reports establish suitability. But can they fully help Intended Parents understand the individual who may carry their future child?

At IMA ART Fertility, we believe qualification is where surrogate selection begins — not where it ends.

That belief led us to develop a founder-led philosophy we call Human Insight.

Human Insight is not another medical screening process, nor is it intended to replace psychological or legal evaluations performed by licensed professionals. Rather, it is an additional perspective developed through time, meaningful conversation and genuine human relationships. It is designed to complement the established safeguards that already exist while helping Intended Parents move forward with greater confidence.

As a founder-led advisory for private clients, we have deliberately chosen a different path from organisations built around volume. By limiting the number of journeys we undertake, our founders remain personally involved throughout the surrogacy process. Those shared experiences create opportunities to know the individual behind the clinical reports — not through another checklist, but through genuine human interaction over time.

This philosophy reflects a simple belief:

The better we know people, the better we understand whom we trust.

Our latest article explores why we believe Human Insight represents an additional dimension of thoughtful surrogate selection for private clients, while fully respecting the indispensable role of medicine, psychology and law.

Read the complete article here:

https://www.imaartfertility.com/article/surrogate-selection-beyond-medical-screening

By Michelle Tang & Ron Sonnenberg

IMA ART Fertility | Beverly Hills