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Baby M and the Question of Surrogate Motherhood

You could say that the surrogate mother of all surrogate mothers was Hagar, servant to Sarai in the Old Testament. Sarai, later known as Sarah, had fertility woes. So she pleaded with her husband — Abram, before he became Abraham — to lie with Hagar and do what needed to be done. “It may be that I may obtain children by her,” she said, as rendered in the King James Version of Genesis 16:2. Her plan worked splendidly. Hagar conceived a son. Call him Ishmael.

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Utah Grandmother Surrogate for Daughter’s Baby: 58-Year-Old’s First Grandchild

A Utah grandmother became a surrogate mother to give her daughter and son-in-law the baby they so desperately wanted. Julia Navarro, the 58-year-old grandmother, is carrying her granddaughter for her 32-year-old daughter Lorena McKinnon who wasn’t able to carry a baby to full-term, according toe Canadanow.com on Jan. 8.

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Family Bonds: How Does Surrogacy Impact on Relationships?

When a woman becomes a surrogate to enable others to have a baby, new relationships are formed. Research carried out by the Centre of Family Research, University of Cambridge, suggests that many of these relationships flourish. The research will be presented today at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in London.