title: Manipulations with human life and surrogate motherhood: ethical aspects and moral guidelines.
abstract: Surrogate motherhood necessarily leads to the question of who is really the mother and what is motherhood. In the judgment of the author, it is necessary to develop a new culture that will bring back to every person the sense of limit and will help humanity develop a more accurate understanding of the duality of scientific and technological progress. Communication between a mother and her unborn child is clearly very close from the biological point of view, but at the same time there exists a mental and spiritual connection. The motherly desire creates the link between a mother and her future child, while the relationship with the child is established at the moment of conception. There is a good alternative to the surrogate motherhood, which most appropriately corresponds to a married couple or family, namely, adoption, which is one of the forms of the valuable service of life. The moral duty of everyone is to protect human race from radical attacks and various forms of manipulation and pass it over intact and preserved for future generations to come.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Fr Ihor
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Boyko
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D013533:Gestational Carriers