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surrogate mother |
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surrogate mother, a woman who agrees, usually by contract and for a fee, to bear a child for a couple who are childless because the wife is infertile or physically incapable of carrying a developing fetus. Often the surrogate mother is the biological mother of the child, conceiving it by means of artificial insemination artificial insemination, technique involving the artificial injection of sperm-containing semen from a male into a female to cause pregnancy. Artificial insemination is often used in animals to multiply the possible offspring of a prized animal and for the breeding ..... Click the link for more information. with sperm from the husband. In gestational surrogacy, the wife is fertile but incapable of carrying a growing fetus; the child is conceived by in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. ..... Click the link for more information. using the wife's eggs and her husband's sperm, and the resulting embryo is implanted in the surrogate mother's uterus. Surrogate motherhood has raised complex ethical and legal issues, and lawsuits over custody after the child's birth have resulted from both types of surrogacy. In the highly publicized Baby M case (1986–88), Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate (and biological) mother, sued William and Elizabeth Stern, the baby's father and his wife, for custody of the child. Although the surrogate mother was not awarded custody in the Baby M case, she was granted visitation rights. Several European countries and a number of states have passed laws banning paid surrogacy. |
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Since she worked in the evenings, she explained, she passed her son around to various surrogate mothers each night until she got home. These altered eggs were transplanted into sows, which served as surrogate mothers. Those surveyed also became more comfortable with cloning after they were told cloning is government regulated and that it is similar to in vitro fertilization with the clones born naturally to surrogate mothers who grow up just like other animals. |
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