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The “No to Trafficking” Team of the Argentine bishops’ National Commission for Justice and Peace has issued a statement hailing the country’s Supreme Court ruling in a case involving surrogate motherhood.
The court rejected the request of a “married” male couple who had contracted with a woman for a child and wanted to be registered as the parents instead of the birth mother, which the bishops’ commission called in a statement an “unprecedented exemplary ruling.”
The statement noted that “the mother is the one who gives birth, regardless of the subjective self-representations and private wishes of third parties.”
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The court rejected the request of a “married” male couple who had contracted with a woman for a child and wanted to be registered as the parents instead of the birth mother, which the bishops’ commission called in a statement an “unprecedented exemplary ruling.”
The statement noted that “the mother is the one who gives birth, regardless of the subjective self-representations and private wishes of third parties.”
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Church in Argentina hails ‘exemplary ruling’ against surrogacy
The court rejected the request of a “married” male couple who had contracted with a woman for a child and wanted to be registered as the parents.
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