[McGruff]

Definition of surrogate mother

: a woman who becomes pregnant usually by artificial insemination or surgical implantation of a fertilized egg for the purpose of carrying the fetus to term for another woman

Maybe his wife couldn't bear children.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Doesn't matter whether Mrs. Franks was infertile or not. Bringing a third party into your marriage is morally objectionable. Among other things, it deprives the child of his bond with his birth-giving mother (and often with his genetic mother as well, if they're outsourcing for the ovum), and deprives these mother(s) of their maternal bond with the child.

How is this "love" for the child when your very first choice --- your very first choice --- is to intentionally, preemptively, by plan, deprive him of his natural rights to natural kinship and bonding?

Commodification of both the woman and the child.

[McGavin999]

She was unable to bear children. His two children were carried by a surrogate mother. She was implanted with fertilized eggs by a doctor