Connery J R
Health Prog. 1985 Mar;66(2):20-3.
Although many see surrogate motherhood as a solution to female sterility, it produces problems with the marriage relationship, parental responsibility, and parent-child bonding. Pope Pius XII condemned artificial insemination from a donor (surrogate fatherhood) because it separates procreation from marriage. This condemnation would extend to surrogate motherhood for the same reasons: Human procreation is reduced simply to transmitting biological life rather than a Christian way of living, which is a task that requires parents' commitment to each other and the child. Many other problems make this procedure unacceptable. These include commercialization, the child's possible anxiety because of its ambiguous parentage, and the surrogate's wanting to keep the child.
尽管许多人将代孕视为解决女性不育问题的办法，但它却给婚姻关系、父母责任以及亲子关系带来了问题。教皇庇护十二世谴责了供体人工授精（代孕父亲），因为它将生育与婚姻分离开来。基于同样的原因，这种谴责也适用于代孕：人类生育仅仅被简化为传递生物生命，而不是一种基督教的生活方式，这是一项需要父母对彼此和孩子做出承诺的任务。许多其他问题也使得这个程序不可接受。这些问题包括商业化、孩子因其模糊的出身可能产生的焦虑，以及代孕者想要保留孩子的情况。
