Surrogacy in Islam

Surrogacy is when another woman carries and gives birth to a baby for the couple who want to have a child. Surrogacy is a modern method of assisted reproductive technology in Iran that has given rise to a lot ofcomplex issues of law. One of the most important questions revolves around the jurisprudential and legal nature of the surrogacy agreement as to whether or not surrogate motherhood is permissible in Islamic jurisprudence in general and in Shiis in particular. This research focuses and elaborates on three types of insemination in surrogacy and concludes in closing that from among the three types of insemination, only two of them (the first and second) are consistent with Shiite Islamic jurisprudence whereas the third one is void and impermissible.