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                Date of Publication: October 01, 1997
            
                     
        
            
            
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        Surrogacy from a feminist perspective
        
        
        
        
            Abstract:
             As commonly understood, a surrogate mother is one who is hired to bear a child that she turns over at birth to her employer. The word 'surrogate' means 'substitute'. Nelson and Nelson point out that 'mother' is the person who gives birth to a child.
         
        
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