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Surrogate Mother

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“We have a great sympathy for people who are infertile, but a life is not something, which you can give away”.
-Mary Beth Whitehead
INTRODUCTION
Even God to every woman does not distribute the gift of motherhood. The lineage of a family exists due to procreation. This generally depends upon the men and women of the family. In Hindu mythology, worshipping Lord Shiva and Lord Kama and Goddess Kali, who are called the “Fertility Gods”, celebrate the motherhood. Fertility rituals and fertility symbols are Shiva Lingam, which is the most powerful fertility symbol in Hinduism, which consists the critical union of Shiv-Parvati, this dominates the religious practices.
Ideally, creature has empowered all living beings with the power of production …show more content…

A contractual undertaking whereby the natural or surrogate mother, for a fee, agrees to conceive a child through artificial insemination with sperm of the natural father, to bear and deliver the child to the natural father, and to terminate all of her parental rights subsequent to the child’s birth.”
The literal meaning of word ‘surrogate’ is ‘substitute’. Surrogacy arrangements are motivated by a desire for a genetically related child and the disincentive arising out of the prolix adoption procedures coupled with difficulty in finding suitable child for adoption. The word surrogate, from Latin surrogatus, means appointed to act in place of. Surrogacy is an arrangement between a woman and a couple or individual to carry and deliver a baby. A surrogate mother is a woman who carries a child for someone else, usually a couple struggling with fertility issues. After the child is born, the surrogate mother surrenders it to the people who have hired her. The surrogate mother is also known as ‘Gestational Carrier’. The concept of “rent a uterus” in fact may be readily acceptable in the more analytical frame of the mind with the argument “at least the baby is made with our gametes, even though nourished in a rented body”. With sisters, sisters-in-law and even mothers lending a hand or rather a uterus, it received greater acceptability (even if future consequences arouse, it could be solved very easily and the helping hand of near and close relative may not be taken out after delivering the

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