is it ethical?
When typing in the phrase “surrogate mother” into the Wikipedia search bar, it leads you to a page called “surrogacy.” It defines it as “an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person.” The debate is whether to support the parents who will be happy to receive a child they could not conceive otherwise, or to support the surrogate mother who's is carrying the baby and has a high chance of negative psychological effects. While the couple who receives the baby is excited, the surrogate mother can develop attachment to the the baby and want to be involved in its life after the 9-month period of being together.
Background information on conception through surrogacy
Using a surrogate mother as an option to infertility has been a solution for couples for many years. The idea that someone who is more able can have a child for someone who is not is amazing. There are many ways to go about with surrogate motherhood. The surrogate mother can be the genetic mother of the child through traditional surrogacy, where the surrogate’s egg cells are used, and the child’s father’s sperm cells are used. But more common these days, is the idea of a gestational mother. In this case, the mother‘s egg cells and father’s sperm cells are used to create an embryo that is placed into the surrogate. There are many other gestational ways such as using the father’s sperm and a donator’s egg, or vice versa, or even using both a donator’s egg cells and sperm cells. In this way, the child is in no way related to the surrogate mother, but can be to its biological mother and father.