surrogate motherhood
Gestational carrier arrangement
Surrogate motherhood is an arrangement where a woman carries and delivers a child for another person or couple who will become the child's parents.
In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate's own egg is fertilized; in gestational surrogacy, she carries an embryo created from others' genetic material.
The practice raises complex legal, ethical, and emotional questions about parenthood, compensation, and bodily autonomy.
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
- parental rightsLegal power over children
- reproductive justiceBodily autonomy in childbearing
- emotional bondingForming affective connections
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
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surrogate motherhoodnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
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