SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD

A potential minefield, navigable with appropriate precautions

The ultimate, in altruism: would you do this, for a stranger?

Pope Francis recently deemed surrogacy “commercial” and “despicable”, on the basis that it is an exploitation of women. He said that the life of the unborn child must be protected and not “suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking”. He called for a worldwide ban on surrogate motherhoo…