Pope Francis called for a universal ban on surrogate pregnancies, suggesting in a speech Monday that unborn children should be protected and not “turned into an object of trafficking,” adding to ...

Surrogacy, a reproductive arrangement in which a woman carries and gives birth to a child on behalf of another person or couple, has provided a path to parenthood for many for whom it was previously ...

Pope Francis on Monday called for a global ban on what he called the “deplorable” practice of parenting via surrogacy, a stance that is likely to roil the LGBT community, of which many members have ...