Surrogacy from the perspective of Judaism
Mirosław Twardowski
Kolegium Nauk Przyrodniczych, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Aleja Rejtana 16c, 35-959 Rzeszów , PolandAbstract
The Jewish attitude to procreation derives from the command of S: “Be fruitful and multiply.” God did not create the world to be a wasteland, but to be inhabited by humans and other living beings. Are we allowed to help infertile spouses obey God’s commandments? Contemporary Jewish authors, from the point of view of the law, try to classify unprecedented practices related to procreation, including surrogacy. To this end, they address many specific issues that need to be resolved, including: (i) is it possible to minimize the use of modern technologies to overcome infertility?; (ii) is it ethically permissible to use the assistance of a third party to facilitate procreation?; (iii) if that is permissible, who is then to be considered the legal mother of the child: the gamete provider or the mother who bore the child?; (iv) what is the status of the surrogate without whom the child could not have been born? This study attempts to answer these and other subjective questions related to the topic of surrogacy.
Keywords:
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