surrogacy
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Surrogacy is an arrangement where one woman (called a surrogate) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child for another person or couple (called intended parents) who will raise the child. It matters because it provides a path to parenthood for people who cannot have biological children themselves, though it also involves complex legal, ethical, and emotional considerations.
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- Methods
- Surrogacy
- Traditional surrogacy
- Risks
- Embryo
- Gestational carriers
- Outcomes
- Indications for surrogacy
- Gestational surrogacy
- History
- Psychological concerns
- Surrogate
- Child and intended parents
- Legal issues
- Citizenship
- Canada
- East Asia
- South Korea
- China
- Australia
- Europe
- Ethical issues
- Surrogate
- Child
- Traditional values in Chinese society
- Financial aspects
- Religious issues
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Catholicism
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Fertility tourism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|Intended parents attend the birth of their child by a gestational surrogate.
Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman gets pregnant and gives birth on behalf of another person or couple who will become the child's legal parents after birth. People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility. Surrogacy is highly controversial, with many countries legally regulating or banning its practice.