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Sat 06 Jun 2009Surrogacy might be good for adults - but not children
No legislation applies to surrogate motherhood in Ireland – the only regulation is by Medical Council guidelines, writes BREDA O'BRIEN.
SARAH JESSICA Parker, star of Sex and the City, is in the news because she and her husband commissioned a surrogate mother who gave birth this week to twins. Surrogacy is not exactly a modern phenomenon. It is even found in the Book of Genesis, when another Sarah, frustrated by her inability to have children, instructed her husband Abraham to have sex with her slave girl, Hagar. A son, Ishmael was born.
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