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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is pregnant with an implanted embryo that she carries for another person or couple.
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As Lauren Hamstead has outlined the ‘language that has developed to describe surrogacy is highly prejudicial, it is deployed to hide some relationships within the transaction and emphasise others. ‘Surrogate mother’ would highlight the maternal relationship and so is often shortened to ‘surrogate’, alternatively ‘gestational carrier’, ‘carrier’ or ‘host’ are used. This has the effect of dehumanising the woman who is pregnant and casting her as an incubator’.
December 26, 2021