surrogate mother

surrogate mother
n.
A woman who bears a child for another couple, either by having her own egg fertilized with the husband’s sperm or by having an embryo made from the couple’s gametes implanted in her uterus, and after birth surrenders her parental rights to the couple.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


surrogate mother
n. A woman who bears a child for a couple that is unable to have children. Upon the child's birth, the surrogate mother gives up all rights and responsibilities to the child. Surrogate parenting contracts were in earlier times held to be illegal under laws that forbade selling of babies; still strictly regulated.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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