Session 6 | Surrogacy & Adoption

This session outlines why adoption supports children’s rights, while third-party reproduction ( including surrogacy) violates children’s rights. Adoption seeks to mend a wound, surrogacy inflicts a wound. In adoption, the child is the client, in reproductive technologies the adult is the client. In adoption, adults support the child. Children conceived through third parties must support the adults. In our broken world, adoption is sometimes necessary. Separating a child through third-party reproduction may be very wanted, but is never necessary. The session makes clear that Christians have a responsibility to care for orphans, not create them.