Family · New York City, NY Metro · August 26, 2026
NYT Feature Asks Who Counts as ‘Mother’ in Surrogacy Dispute
The New York Times published a feature examining a custody dispute in which one woman conceived a child biologically and another carried and delivered him, raising the question of who is legally and morally the child's mother. The piece explores competing claims of genetic and gestational parenthood, though full details of the underlying case are still emerging.
Source: The New York Times
Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
Modern reproductive technology increasingly separates conception, gestation, and legal parenthood — arrangements Scripture never anticipated because it assumes marriage, procreation, and motherhood belong together within God's created order. When courts and media treat motherhood as a matter to be negotiated or assigned by contract, children risk becoming products of commercial arrangement rather than gifts received within covenant marriage. Christians should recognize that surrogacy, however emotionally framed, can commodify children and fracture the biological unity of parenthood that Scripture treats as foundational to family identity and responsibility.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — Psalm 127:3
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From the book
The attack runs on three fronts. It redefines structure, dismantling the normative standard of marriage. It redefines authority, transferring jurisdiction over children to the state through the expert. And it redefines identity, detaching gender and sexuality from biological reality.
— Chapter 18, “Why the Radical Must Dismantle the Family”
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