christians what are your views on...?

Question

surrogate mothers?
for those of you who dont know, surrogate mothers are women who agree to bear a couples child, usually because the other woman cant herself
would that be having a child out of wedlock?

Answer 1

Sorry for pasting, but I found this thought-provoking;

"A case of human artificial insemination was recorded as long ago as 1799. But in recent years this has come to be more widely practiced. According to The New York Times, a woman who is artificially inseminated and bears a child for another woman, as a substitute for her, is called a surrogate mother. The infertile wife and her husband agree to this arrangement, and when the surrogate mother gives birth the baby is adopted by the couple. The sperm in this case could be from the husband of the couple or from another donor.

Although such an arrangement may be approved by many in the world, the Christian rightfully asks whether it is in harmony with God’s laws. The Bible, at Leviticus 18:20, is clear on this point when it says: “You must not give your emission as semen to the wife of your associate to become unclean by it.” Artificial insemination of a woman by a donor other than her legal husband, makes her guilty of adultery, a sin against God. (Deuteronomy 5:18) The sperm donor and the surrogate woman have not been yoked together by God in matrimony.—Matthew 19:4-6."

You are right to think so.

Answer 2

Interesting question... On one hand, being a mother myself, it would absolutely please me to be able to give someone else the gift of having a child. On the other hand, bearing a child for nine months is very emotional for a woman (or at least for me) and I have grown an emotional attachment to each of my children starting at the point I knew I had conceived. The thought of having to give up a child after birth is almost inconceivable to me. If a woman is "strong enough" to have another couples child it should not be through sexual intercourse, it should be through artifical insemination. If you were to have sexual relations with someone else, I would, as a Christian, think it would be a child "out of wedlock." But then again, if both parties of each couple agree that "it's OK" just this once for "child bearing purposes" maybe it wouldn't a sin? Again... very interesting...

In a nutshell: There are many other children out there that need to be adopted or fostered; there is barely a need for surrogacy.

Answer 3

I'm against it, but I don't know that my religion has any official view on the subject. To me having a baby through a surrogate mother is like having your own child but adopting it from someone else. That's just too socially and emotionally complicated. If you can't have kids of your own, adopt. There are so many great kids who need a good family. The more good decent people that adopt children, the less have to go to parents with twisted moral values.

Answer 4

Sarah, Leah and Rachel all arranged for their husbands to have children by a maidservant on their behalf. There can't be anything wrong with it, per se. It is documented to have been a common practice in the ancient societies. Since God never commands anyone not to do it, and gives us examples of women who did, then I doubt it's a sin. Surrogacy as we know it today, where the genetics come from the couple and not from the surrogate mother, would seem to be on even more solid ground. The child is the child of both parents. How can that be wrong?

Answer 5

Sometimes a surrogate mother is used because someone cannot carry a child due to health reasons. I see no problem in any situation. I think it's actually a wonderful gift to be honest with you. It can be very emotional for the woman carrying the child because in actuality, the child is not hers. It's a hard choice to make, but sometimes, it can be the best thing that someone did. I support it.

Answer 6

it would be having a child out of wedlock but she wont be keeping the child. the child would still grow up with a mother and a father instead of a single parent, which is what is important - the child having both a father and a mother. that is why having children out of wedlock is not a good idea.

Answer 7

The women is a vessel, there is no sexual act taking place between the surrogate and the father of the child. I find nothing wrong with it. I think you are potentially opening up a can of worms psychologically and these kind of contracts should never be entered into lightly.

Answer 8

No, and in fact, if you look at the book of Ruth, you'll see the concept quite will illustrated of "Levarite marriage." If a man, in the OT, was married to a woman and he died without a child, his brother was to marry her and have a child in his name so that his seed would not disappear from the earth. After the first child, any children after were the child of the 2 of them. As to what you're specifically talking about in the modern age, since the law is now fulfilled, I would recommend adoption of surrogacy. Best to A) avoid the appearance of evil, and B) to head off trouble before it appears. Take the example of Issac and Ishmael. That sibling rivalry continues to this day (Muhammad was a descendant of Ishmael--make sense now why there's so much enmity?).

Answer 9

As a Christian, I have no idea....I know of no one personally who has been invoved in that. However, as a woman and a mom, I'd better get paid a ton of money to do that. I'm not getting impreganated, going through morning sickness, all of those doctor visits then a c-section and handing over the kid not getting some kind of monetary compensation. However, I live in FL and you can't paid for it here.

Answer 10

I understand human beings's ideal to have faith in what they like to have faith (as an atheist). And approximately seventy 5-eighty p.c. of the Christians I even have met are rather wonderful human beings, with stunning techniques, a lot of them very smart and astute, and a excitement to be attentive to. although.. (confident, right here comes the although...) i won't help yet sense that some forms of 'Christian' concept serve to undermine civilisation and progression, by potential of demonstrating a spiteful physique of innovations in the direction of technology and Darwinism, by potential of forbidding using condoms in overpopulated 0.33-international international places and someplace else, and by potential of training little ones that they are 'born with sin'. those are examples of stressful-line Christian ideals that i detect no longer basically absurd, yet unfavourable. There are some Christian communities that locate the real international so unsightly that they convey about their own isolationist subculture - their own procuring shops, their own action picture and television industry, and dig their heads extra and extra into the sand. there are various issues in modern subculture that i do in comparison to the two, yet to reject plenty as 'evil' is to stay in a bubble. maximum no longer common of all is the actuality that maximum of Christians are no longer basically content fabric to stay with their ideals - they like YOU to have their ideals. Jews, Muslims, Bhuddists, Hindus, i do never bump into one in all them attempting to transform me (nicely.. according to danger Hare Krishnas very in some circumstances...). I even have heard each and all the arguments already one thousand cases, I even have examine various variations of the Bible for myself (as an Historian), and each time now that I bump into a Christian of a few form attempting to locate a diffused thank you to get me alongside to a Church or a bible learn type, it provokes a rage interior me that i'm many times too well mannered to unharness. on the different hand, various the Christians I even have met in my soft suburban context, have been wonderful sufficient human beings. there are maximum of, many diverse flavours of Christianity, and the intense ones could be, nicely, quite intense. nevertheless, extremely much less intense than interior the middle a while, i assume. further word: basically appeared at that youtube hyperlink above, from Canadian Atheist - now THAT makes the Spanish Inquisition seem nicely-balanced...