European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page is the stars and stripes monday May 11,1987 Coli Lens today s crossword muddle Over surrogate Mother by Williams Amr e my colleagues at . News & world report and such Learned journals As the new York times writes David e. Pollard keep referring to Mary both White head Ai the surrogate Mother of baby m. I hold thai she in t a surrogate anything. 1 May she Isth to other. As in real actual honest to cod Mother. For hire maybe. Bui Mother nonetheless. And if society it going to insist thai mrs. White head i the surrogate Mother then whatever shall we Call mrs Stern the wife of baby m s father please give us a , the noun derived from latin Means one who takes the place of  in the 17th Century twas the name Given to the Deputy of an ecclesiastical judge the Bishop would let the surrogate handle the issuance of marriage licenses. That led to it us admiralty Law courts a surrogate was appointed to and in place of a regular judge. This substitute judge flopped being a second class judicial citizen when he was Given jurisdiction Over the probate of wills an additional meaning was Given to the judge id that Field when he was considered to be acting a or regale for or in place of the deceased parents of a minor. The Ruzian novelist Kan Turgenev liked the term criticizing a Coue by t Book in his eyes Art it a la or Foster or adoptive  Vatican in a statement condemned All such end runs around infertility surrogate motherhood offends the dignity and the right of the child to be conceived carried in he womb brought into the world and brought up by his own  Rome did no differentiate Between the process of implanting a fertilized egg in a rented or borrowed womb and the process of impregnating the one hired to Bear the child by fertilizing one of her own eggs. That exemplifies the linguistic confusion. Surrogacy is now most often taken m its most inclusive sense seen and spoken Oslo mean the business of arranging for 3 baby to be produced in the body of a woman other than the female partner in a  the crucial difference made by the place of the egg s fertilization ii usually overlooked wombs for rent and eggs for Purchase quite different situations Are lumped together in the whole Field or Issue called Surriga re , then does the person who wants to be linguistically precise Call the woman who is the genetic female Parent and also the bearer of the child logic suggests the answer to be Ris ply. The Mother but Sinei logic does not Rule the language. In current use that woman is part of the surrogacy movement or Trade if you disapprove and As such is called the surrogate Mother. 1 f enough people write angrily to Media Gulleu to pro test the use Otenis phrase in this sense and claim thai the phrase has a built in Bias against their cause or beliefs perhaps writers and broadcasters will be intimidated or stricken with logic in that Case some other phrase would be coined thai engenders less controversy. It s too soon for a ruling current usage d sly on the Side of calling the hired Carrier the , but a backlash May be developing. I would stick to the cacti if you mean the woman who provides the egg alone us genetic Mother if she provides the uterus without the rag iry uterine Mother if she provides both egg an uterus try genetic childbearing Mother or i you want to sneak in a Litty propaganda natural Mother. As for the other woman the one contracting for the child s delivery if she provides no egg she is the adoptive Mother and would probably prefer that More re cent modifier to res Fer from old English for food nourishment. If she has custody she can also be called the Legal  desirable is Stepmother which still carries the unfair wicked connotation. As Mary Beth White head said in her failed custody attempt i do not want to be known As a Stepmother. I want to be a Legal