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During his annual address to the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican yesterday, Pope Francis called for an international ban on the “deplorable” practice of surrogacy, saying that it “represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child.”

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After reading about a surrogate mother who is being pressured by the biological parents to abort one of the three children she is carrying for them, a second surrogate mother has come forward to report being pressured to do the same. Both women have refused.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

A 27 year-old single gay man who was impatient to become a father was able to produce a son by resorting to an anonymous donor and his 45 year-old mother who agreed to carry the child to term.

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Anyone who wants their child to become an instant U.S. citizen need only hire an American woman as a surrogate who will now have the authority to grant citizenship on the child, whether she is genetically linked to the baby or not.

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Children conceived via surrogate mothers think the time has come for the world to hear the other side of the story about surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive technology that are all about the parents and not concerned enough about the feelings of the children who are conceived through these unnatural means.

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Exploitation of poor women in India who "rent" their wombs to wealthy oversees parents has drawn criticism from women's groups and now the Indian government which has proposed a law to regulate the industry more closely.

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In addition to its devastating impact on the institution of marriage and the well-being of children, same-sex marriage will also lead to the exploitation of women as homosexual men seek out "cheap wombs" to rent - mostly those of poor women -  to produce their offspring.

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Poor women desperate for financial assistance are lining up alongside couples longing to conceive in a fertility clinic near New Delhi's whose owner says business is booming.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The American surrogacy industry is reeling after news broke that a high-profile California attorney who specialized in "non-traditional, third-party family building" was operating an elaborate baby-selling ring.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In a decision that could have a far-reaching impact on couples who choose in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy to start a family, a New Jersey court has ruled that a woman cannot be named the mother of a child she did not give birth to, and with whom she has no genetic links.

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