A fatwa by the National Council of Islamic Religious affairs that has not been widely reported was reissued that bans surrogacy in Malaysia.
LM is no scholar although I struggle to understand the distinction between banning surrogacy yet accepting the permissibility of IVF. Surely their is an element of artificiality that distinguishes both forms of pregnancy from a natural childbirth. In addition, the irony is since the fatwa was issued surrogacy in Malaysia has rocketed so it clearly is not being enforced by the religious Police.
LM is no scholar although I struggle to understand the distinction between banning surrogacy yet accepting the permissibility of IVF. Surely their is an element of artificiality that distinguishes both forms of pregnancy from a natural childbirth. In addition, the irony is since the fatwa was issued surrogacy in Malaysia has rocketed so it clearly is not being enforced by the religious Police.
The surrogacy aspect is banned because Islam recognises the woman who carries the child as the mother, not a couple who would adopt the child from the woman once it was born. Islam bans surrogacy to essentially protect the bond between mother and child. IVF is allowed because the child is still carried by the woman who wants the child and involves taking sperm from her husband, not a donor.
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