Re: Outsourcing Motherhood - Is it allowed in Islam ?
My point is simple, today we are better equipped to offset the pain and speed up recovery. There is no denying that.
This is what I had sort of emphasized in my first post as well. There are other sensitivities that would have to be dealt with, which have no straight answers. I do not think we can call it Zina. Is biological mother the one who carries the embryo or the one whose eggs are used would be the question? What defines the biological relationship? I do not think there is a straight answer to that, which is why I would probably vote against it.
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I agree with your first point ... don't mind the missus she gets angry when men try to explain things they have no idea about how it feels, but I did try to explain to her that if the technology was useless then why do so many women insist on using those techniques?
Totally agree with the next point too ... If some people call a child born out of wedlock a criteria for zina then that is dangerous especially with regards to what we understand about Isa (AS) ... however, to say the impregnation was artificially done then that is subject to ijtihad because it is a new matter. When it comes to motherhood one can only have one mother. If anything the surrogate mother has a greater claim on the child because she has had to forebear more time, more pain more of her blood is shared even though it is not her genetics. It is her effort and the psycho-spiritual bond is formed with her also. That presents a lot of problems on the paper. It is like having your "biological" mother as a step mother and your "surrogate" mother as your actual mother if it comes down to attempting to legalise the whole situation.
Potentially this scenario should be entertained, because it is quite possible for a surrogate mother born person could potentially become a Muslim in later life and would then be subejcted to such conditions.