Surrogate pregnancy (SP) has acquired a prominent public profile through the bioethical, legal and media debates this cross-border reproductive practice has raised worldwide. The different social agents involved in the phenomenon frequently appeal to public opinion looking for legitimation and endorsement of their ethical and political positions on the matter. However, opinion polls occupy a marginal place in research about SP. The article presents the findings of the scoping review of 31 scientific articles (1985–2017) analysing public opinion regarding SP in 13 countries. The aim is to single out the main subtopics covered by the studies in order to identify research gaps as well as describe and analyse SP as a socio-cultural construct and ‘social problem’ which is currently situated in a complex multidimensional arena made of conflicting narratives and attitudes that divide international public opinion along each one of the identified subtopics. Additionally, the article presents the results of the survey Opinion and Attitudes of the Spanish Population towards Adoption, Fostering and Gestational Surrogacy (2018), the first conducted in Spain with a representative national sample.

通过这种跨界生殖实践在世界范围内引起的生物伦理，法律和媒体辩论，代孕（SP）已赢得了公众的广泛关注。参与该现象的不同社会角色经常引起舆论的关注寻找合法性并认可他们在此问题上的道德和政治立场。但是，民意测验在有关SP的研究中仅占很小的位置。本文介绍了31篇科学文章（1985-2017年）的范围界定审查的结果，这些文章分析了13个国家中有关SP的公众意见。目的是挑出研究涵盖的主要子主题，以发现研究空白，并描述和分析SP作为一种社会文化结构和“社会问题”，该问题目前位于由相互矛盾的叙述构成的复杂多维领域中以及将国际公众舆论沿着确定的每个子主题划分的态度。此外，本文还介绍了“西班牙人口对收养的看法和态度”调查的结果，