• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Technically, that’s called gestational surrogacy. Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate’s egg and the intended father’s (or donor’s) sperm.

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        8 months ago

        By “traditional”, I think they mean “before we had the ability to facilitate gestational surrogacy”

        Sort of like half-adoption, if you think of it like that. So for people who lived pre 20th century…