surrogate mother
a woman who is made pregnant by artificial means and bears a child for someone else
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His Thai SURROGATE MOTHER said his Australian parents abandoned the boy when they learned he had Down's Syndrome.
(BBC News)
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In the UK surrogacy is legal, but a couple can only pay reasonable expenses to a SURROGATE MOTHER.
(The Guardian)
(BBC News)
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In the UK surrogacy is legal, but a couple can only pay reasonable expenses to a SURROGATE MOTHER.
(The Guardian)
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surrogate mother
noun phrase
- a woman who has a baby for another person who is unable to become pregnant or have a baby
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The term surrogate is from the Latin surrogatus, the past participle of surrogare/subrogare, meaning to "put in another's place or to substitute" (sub = in the place of + rogare = to ask, propose).
The phrase surrogate mother began to surface in the late 1970s, around the time that Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born. She was the product of so-called in vitro fertilisation or IVF.
Surrogacy, as it is called, can take place in several ways. The surrogate mother can be implanted with an IVF embryo with the intended father's sperm or donor sperm and intended mother's egg or a donor egg. The other common method is artificial insemination involving either the intended father's sperm or a donor sperm.
Surrogacy has created ethical and legal issues that are still being resolved. Laws differ from country to country, particularly with respect to whether commercial surrogacy, or paying the surrogate mother, is permitted.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Being a surrogate mother is illegal in many countries."
noun phrase
- a woman who has a baby for another person who is unable to become pregnant or have a baby
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The term surrogate is from the Latin surrogatus, the past participle of surrogare/subrogare, meaning to "put in another's place or to substitute" (sub = in the place of + rogare = to ask, propose).
The phrase surrogate mother began to surface in the late 1970s, around the time that Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born. She was the product of so-called in vitro fertilisation or IVF.
Surrogacy, as it is called, can take place in several ways. The surrogate mother can be implanted with an IVF embryo with the intended father's sperm or donor sperm and intended mother's egg or a donor egg. The other common method is artificial insemination involving either the intended father's sperm or a donor sperm.
Surrogacy has created ethical and legal issues that are still being resolved. Laws differ from country to country, particularly with respect to whether commercial surrogacy, or paying the surrogate mother, is permitted.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Being a surrogate mother is illegal in many countries."
