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Motherhood has those genetic components—the person who provided the ovum—and also a gestational component—the woman who's pregnant. For all of human history until 20 years ago, these two mothers were always, undoubtedly, the same person. That's not true any more. Who's the real mother? If you take Mary's ovum and put it in Susan's body, whose name goes on the birth certificate? Right now, it depends. If Mary is an egg donor and Susan is an infertility patient, then Susan gets to be the mother. If Mary is the infertility patient, and Susan is hired as a contract surrogate mother, then Mary gets to be the mother.
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