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Can a Christian woman become a surrogate mother? And underneath that question are bigger ones. Is surrogacy just helping a family? Or does it cross a moral boundary that scripture and Christian ethics cannot

ignore? What about infertility? Real pain, real sorrow, real desire to have children. Am I just

helping someone to deal with this pain? What about some modern surrogacy, being a business

with contracts, agencies and a lot of money that are being

involved. In this video, I first want to define what surrogacy clearly is, show the two types,

and give you some real-world context as well as lay out a Christian ethical concerns

without pretending that this is an easy topic. What is a surrogate mother?

A surrogate mother is a woman who carries and delivers a baby for another person or couple,

who will become the children's parents after birth.

There are two types of surrogacy.

A traditional surrogacy, this is where the surrogate's egg is fertilized by the intended father's sperm or a donor's sperm.

That means that a surrogate is the biological mother of the child.

Now the second type of surrogacy, which is in high rise in our culture today, is gestational surrogacy.

And this is when an embryo is created through IVF using an egg and

a sperm of an intended parents and then it's implanted in a surrogate. In this case the surrogate

has no genetic tie to the baby that she carries. Now surrogacy is becoming more common, especially

as it's a solution for infertility and it's an option for same-sex couples pursuing children.

The rise is tied to both reproductive technology and shifts that are happening in our culture.

And here are some snapshots to show the direction that this is going.

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