june 5, 2025
Surrogacy and Compensation

I believe that, in theory, payment is prohibited even in countries where surrogacy is allowed. The problem is that it’s hard to verify whether a woman is offering her womb purely out of altruism and not in exchange for financial compensation.
It seems unlikely that a woman would go through all the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth solely to give another woman the joy of becoming a mother. This might happen among close relatives—sisters, for example—and I’ve even heard of some cases involving a mother and daughter.