Surrogate Mother Definition
noun
A woman who agrees, often for pay, to give birth to a child resulting from artificial insemination or the implantation of an already fertilized egg and who surrenders any parental rights to a third party.
American Heritage
One that acts as, serves as, or is a mother substitute.
American Heritage Medicine
A woman who bears a child for a couple that is unable to have children. Upon the child’s birth, the surrogate mother gives up all rights and responsibilities to the child. Surrogate parenting contracts were in earlier times held to be illegal under laws that forbade selling of babies; still strictly regulated.
Webster's New World Law
Other Word Forms of Surrogate Mother
Noun
Singular:
surrogate mother
Plural:
surrogate-mothers
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