anyone know how God would view ......?

Question

someone carrying a baby for someone else?surrogacy.is it against Gods laws?i really would like veiwpoints from jw's BUT WELCOME ALL ANSWERS.

to add more info on this yes i do believe in God whole heartedly and care how he views this matter also it would be for my own daughter who has had 4 heartbreaking miscarriages.

Answer 1

Is there a certain reason you only want the information from witnesses? just curious. here it is.....


The Bible’s Viewpoint

Surrogate Motherhood—Is It for Christians?

THE ancient Roman poet Horace knew nothing of surrogate motherhood when he wrote: “It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.” The 17th-century French writer’s maxim, “Birth is nothing where virtue is not,” was also penned long before the concept of surrogate birth became a legal quagmire. But, as Mary Thom reported in Ms. magazine, with new reproductive technology, “the functions of producer of the egg, incubator of the fetus-becoming-baby, and caretaker of the baby once born” may be divided among two or three “mothers.” The question of “virtue” and “consequence” has become both ambiguous and complex.

The practice of using surrogate mothers burst onto the world scene during the mid-1970’s, raising social, moral, and legal problems not faced before. Some infertile couples were eager to take advantage of this nontraditional mode of reproduction. On the other hand, doctors, lawyers, and legislators have struggled to keep up with the expanding fertility technology in an effort to set guidelines that address the ethical and moral questions raised.

What Is Surrogate Motherhood?

Surrogate, or contract, motherhood is having an artificially inseminated woman bear a child for another woman. So-called traditional surrogacy occurs when the surrogate mother is impregnated through artificial insemination with the sperm of the husband from the couple who have contracted with her. The surrogate is thus the genetic mother of the baby. Gestational surrogacy means that the wife’s egg and the husband’s sperm are united outside the womb in a process known as in-vitro (test-tube) fertilization, and the resulting embryo is placed in the surrogate’s uterus for gestation.

Why the rise in surrogate motherhood? For one thing, high-tech science has discovered several ways to help women have babies. Couples may desperately want a child, yet because of infertility, inconvenience, or too few healthy babies for adoption, they cannot have one. So they rent another person’s body to have a baby. Since large sums of money are involved, surrogacy has been described in unflattering terms, such as “involuntary servitude and slavery” and “strip-mining the fertility of the poor.”

In the United States, the New Jersey Supreme Court recognized the potential for the rich to exploit the poor and in a surrogacy case stated: “There are, in short, values that society deems more important than granting to wealth whatever it can buy, be it labor, love, or life.” The Supreme Court of France stated that surrogate motherhood violates a woman’s body and that “the human body is not lent out, is not rented out, is not sold.”

Problems With Surrogacy

Surrogacy brings a number of problems. One is the potential for ugly legal battles if the woman who gives birth wants to keep the baby. Whose baby is it, the woman who gives birth or the woman who provides the egg? So the birth of a child, usually a time of joy, sometimes leads to a courtroom battle. Another problem: Some women who agree to become surrogate mothers find their feelings changing with the development and birth of the contracted child. The contract laid out some months earlier becomes harder and harder to accept. A powerful bonding relationship is being formed between the mother and the baby inside her. One surrogate mother, not anticipating this bonding, explains her feelings about giving up the baby: “It was as if somebody had died. My body was crying out for my daughter.”

Also, what long-term effects might such a birth have on the surrogate’s other children, the family that accepts the baby, and the child itself? Or what will happen if a child born by a surrogate mother has a birth defect? Is the father obliged to take the baby? If not, who pays for the child’s support? And an even more important question, What is God’s view of surrogate motherhood?

Does Surrogate Motherhood Honor Marriage?

God’s Word tells us that he looks upon marriage as something sacred. For example, Hebrews 13:4 states: “Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.” God expects all Christians to consider marriage honorable and to keep it that way. What defiles marriage? Fornication, which can dishonor marriage in advance, and adultery, which dishonors marriage after it has been entered into.

Does surrogate motherhood honor marriage and keep the marriage bed undefiled? Simply put, no. Traditional surrogacy requires the insemination of the woman by donor sperm. The Bible’s view may be found at Leviticus 18:20, which says: “You must not give your emission as semen to the wife of your associate to become unclean by it.” There is no Biblical basis for making a distinction between insemination by intercourse and insemination artificially by donor implantation. Therefore, in either case, fornication or adultery is committed when insemination is accomplished by a male other than the woman’s legal husband.

What about gestational surrogacy? This too defiles the marriage bed. True, the fertilized egg would be a union of the husband and his wife, but it is thereafter placed in the womb of another woman and, in fact, makes her pregnant. This pregnancy is not the result of sexual relations between the surrogate woman and her own husband. Thus, her reproductive organs are now being used by someone other than her own mate. This is inconsistent with the Bible’s moral principles that a woman bear a child for her own husband. (Compare Deuteronomy 23:2.) It would not be proper for a man other than the surrogate’s own husband to make use of her reproductive organs. It is an improper use of the marriage bed. Thus, surrogate motherhood is not for Christians

Answer 2

Does surrogate motherhood honor marriage and keep the marriage bed undefiled? Simply put, no. Traditional surrogacy requires the insemination of the woman by donor sperm. The Bible’s view may be found at Leviticus 18:20, which says: “You must not give your emission as semen to the wife of your associate to become unclean by it.” There is no Biblical basis for making a distinction between insemination by intercourse and insemination artificially by donor implantation. Therefore, in either case, fornication or adultery is committed when insemination is accomplished by a male other than the woman’s legal husband.

What about gestational surrogacy? This too defiles the marriage bed. True, the fertilized egg would be a union of the husband and his wife, but it is thereafter placed in the womb of another woman and, in fact, makes her pregnant. This pregnancy is not the result of sexual relations between the surrogate woman and her own husband. Thus, her reproductive organs are now being used by someone other than her own mate. This is inconsistent with the Bible’s moral principles that a woman bear a child for her own husband. (Compare Deuteronomy 23:2.) It would not be proper for a man other than the surrogate’s own husband to make use of her reproductive organs. It is an improper use of the marriage bed. Thus, surrogate motherhood is not for Christians.

Answer 3

One reason Jesus authorized the Church as an actual human organization with leaders, rules, membership requirements, and doctrines is to deal with new questions. Surrogate motherhood is such a question.

Here is the teaching from the Catechism:

2376 Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses' "right to become a father and a mother only through each other."
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm

In other words, the child has a right to two parents, including his own mother, who is to be his or her exclusive caretaker during the first 9 months of life. When a third quasi-parent (here, the surrogate mother) is introduced, you violate the exclusivity of marriage in ways that have grave consequences.

Also to be considered is the destruction of the embryos conceived for implantation in the surrogate but not used. This takes the lives of children created in the image of God and endowed with the inalienable right to life.

Consider adoption as a genuinely Christian and charitable alternative that God approves.

Cheers,
Bruce

P.S. The JW treatment above is well done--kudos.

Answer 4

First off, I'd like to apologize for the answerers here who can't READ... it was obvious that you were asking about perceptions and how they are created and what role your parents play in that (not that you worship your parents or anything). I agree with the answerer who indicated that how you were raised helps shape your perception, but really where you go from there is really up to you. I believe that many people have an internal compass that is created by their experiences and that leads them towards their version of God, or for atheists, not-God. That's why people should be allowed to find their own perceptions and notions of "truth".

Answer 5

That is a precious gift how would God hate that, but it will be challenging to you to give up the child . Very hard and may lead you to depression and a sense of loss as if having a child die on you. I don't see how you would not bond and get attached to the baby while you carried it. Also concerning the child they have proved a baby recognizes the heartbeat of the mother, it would suffer if it were separated too soon.

Answer 6

That's a really interesting question. I would think that unless you're Catholic or another strict sect that it would be okay. It seems like a charitable thing to do and therefore it would be viewed as that. I don't know though, I'm atheist!

Answer 7

"would"?

Now, if you don't believe in god (as suggested by your use of the subjunctive), why do you care what believers say about whether or not God approves of this?

Answer 8

There is nothing in the Bible which addresses that question directly.
I don't G-d would have a problem with that.

Answer 9

Im against it unless the ppl are blood related..

Answer 10

Personally, I don't have a problem with it. As for God's view, you must ask Him for that.