What is surrogacy?    

Surrogacy

Surrogacy is an arrangement, usually contractual, under which a woman (the “gestational”, surrogate or birth mother) agrees to bear a child for another person or persons (the “commissioning parent/s”) with the intention that the child be handed over to those persons immediately or very soon after the birth. The persons involved may or may not be genetically related to the child.

Artificial Conception Procedures

Artificial conception procedures include artificial insemination or the implantation of an embryo in the body of a woman. An alternative term is assisted reproduction. Surrogacy is an artificial conception procedure.