{"id":335021,"date":"2025-07-31T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=335021"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:10:12","slug":"altruistic-surrogacy-isnt-ethical-alternative-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/altruistic-surrogacy-isnt-ethical-alternative-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Why altruistic surrogacy isn&#8217;t an &#8216;ethical alternative&#8217; to commercial surrogacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While altruistic surrogacy is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&amp;context=jibl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">touted as an \u201cethical alternative\u201d to commercial surrogacy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because the surrogate receives no financial gain beyond reasonable expenses, both altruistic and commercial surrogacy (when the surrogate obtains a fee) present the same moral dilemmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even altruistic surrogacy as opposed to commercial surrogacy comes with inherent moral and practical dilemmas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Some countries lack clear laws governing surrogacy, fail to provide post-pregnancy support, and have legal gray areas regarding parental rights as related to surrogacy.<\/li>\n<li>The social stigma of infertility pushes many women toward considering surrogacy, especially involving a stranger. The women recruited for this are often exploited, and may be paid a fee even though it is not considered commercial surrogacy.<\/li>\n<li>The trauma of surrogacy for the surrogate mothers and the babies cannot be understated; altruistic surrogacy does nothing to allay this problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Details:<\/h2>\n<h3>All surrogacy raises moral dilemmas<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some countries may outlaw commercial surrogacy while allowing altruistic surrogacy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, India and Thailand both allow altruistic surrogacy with strict restrictions. However, India <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10327345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibits<\/a> surrogacy for foreign nationals, and surrogacy that it does allow usually entails a close relative functioning as the surrogate. Thailand banned commercial surrogacy for international intended parents in 2015. Both countries have made these legal changes on the pretext of safeguarding women from commodification and exploitation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonetheless, from a pro-life viewpoint, altruistic surrogacy is unable to fundamentally address the inherent moral and practical dilemmas in the practice of surrogacy itself. It still commodifies the female body to conceive a child outside the conjugal union, undermining the welfare of children conceived, surrogate mothers, and society as a whole. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surrogate mothers still provide \u201cwombs for rent\u201d in altruistic surrogacy arrangements and may be treated as \u201cincubators\u201d or \u201cmachines\u201d to carry preborn children to term before giving birth to them and handing them over to their intended parents. In short, surrogate mothers in altruistic surrogacy arrangements still serve as \u201cmeans\u201d to the \u201cends.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Legal gray areas create further problems<\/h3>\n<p>In addition, many Asian countries lack explicit and holistic laws governing surrogacy, putting surrogate mothers at risk of forced medical decisions such as compulsory cesareans. The lack of post-pregnancy support, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/journalsonline.academypublishing.org.sg\/Journals\/Singapore-Academy-of-Law-Journal-Special-Issue\/e-Archive\/ctl\/eFirstSALPDFJournalView\/mid\/513\/ArticleId\/1302\/Citation\/JournalsOnlinePDF\">legal gray areas<\/a> surrounding parental rights over surrogate children, further adds complications to the entire surrogacy process.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40227536\/\">China\u2019s laws<\/a> pertaining to surrogacy do not explicitly regulate surrogacy, giving rise to a huge <i>underground surrogacy market<\/i> despite regulations forbidding medical involvement in surrogacy procedures. A 2025 study <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40227536\/\">published<\/a> in PubMed found that \u201ccurrent regulations in China broadly prohibit surrogacy-related medical activities but fail to differentiate between healthcare professionals who actively facilitate surrogacy arrangements and those who fulfill their professional obligations to patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than eradicating the dangers of exploitation caused by commercial surrogacy, altruistic surrogacy conceals these problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6357206\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have shown that surrogate mothers may feel pressured to become surrogates based on feelings of kinship obligations and familial ties, hindering them from truly obtaining informed consent about the surrogacy process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altruistic surrogacy also commodifies children by treating them as products born to fulfill the intended parents&#8217; desires at the expense of the child&#8217;s dignity and welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The social stigma of infertility<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The social stigma surrounding infertility in Asia, particularly among familial networks, further calls into question altruistic surrogacy as a whole, as many infertile couples seek the services of surrogate mothers not related to them by blood ties to avoid the social stigma of infertility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These surrogate mothers usually hail from less privileged economic backgrounds and will only provide surrogate services for a fee (a situation that ironically reeks of commercial surgery instead).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even without financial gain, many Asian surrogate mothers, especially those who are less educated and less privileged, risk being<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27720287\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exploited<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/humrep\/article\/40\/3\/420\/7979098?login=false\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack of informed consent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, insufficient medical support, and lack of legal safeguards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, surrogate mothers may be<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5989605\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impacted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by psychological trauma, as they carry and bond with the preborn children for nine months. When they have to give the babies to the intended parents, these mothers may encounter feelings of alienation, trauma, and grief that are not addressed by existing support systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signed agreements between surrogate mothers and clients do not eliminate emotional bonds between surrogate mothers and the children they carry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Bottom Line:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surrogacy, even for altruistic reasons, fundamentally trivializes human life from the point of conception and facilitates the exploitation of women and children, who may suffer psychological, social, and legal consequences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Follow Live Action News on <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LiveActionOrg\/\"><b><i>Instagram<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> for more pro-life news.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While altruistic surrogacy is touted as an \u201cethical alternative\u201d to commercial surrogacy because the surrogate receives no financial gain beyond reasonable expenses, both altruistic and commercial surrogacy (when the surrogate obtains a fee) present the same moral dilemmas. Key Takeaways: Even altruistic surrogacy as opposed to commercial surrogacy comes with inherent moral and practical dilemmas. 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