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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The surrogate’s cells will be inside your baby’s body forever. Your baby’s cells will be in the surrogate’s forever as well. Google microchimerism. [/quote]

1. This is a relatively rare phenomenon, so definitely not true for all women and babies.  Especially not the "forever" part.

2. So what?[/quote]

-1- it’s not rare — it is almost universal. It’s not a huge number of cells but autopsies suggest that bio moms have them until death.

-2- few labs study this, nobody understands what these cells are doing, but there are some pretty interesting ideas. You asked if it was ethical, so this is just another dimension to consider.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bies.201500059[/quote]

I'm struggling to see how this medical phenomenon impacts the question of morality.  [/quote]

Let’s see…because you are exposing the surrogate to a host of medical issues that scientists are aware of but don’t understand? Because it’s ethically more complex to acknowledge that this intimate relationship does not end after nine months and the check cashes? [/quote]

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