【双语有声阅读】寻找代孕母亲(下)

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However, it is illegal to advertise for a surrogate or for a surrogate to advertise.

然而，为代孕做广告或者代孕者自己宣传均是违法的。

Once the baby is born, the intended parents will need to establish their legal parentage otherwise the baby will be registered as the child of the birth mother -- the surrogate.

孩子一旦出世，寻求代孕的父母需要确立他们的法定父母身份，否则孩子就会被登记在其生母即代孕母亲的名下。

The advantages and disadvantages

好处与坏处

For a woman who can't conceive, surrogacy creates a chance for her and her partner to parent a child who is their genetic¹ children at least partially² (if they use the father's sperm³ and the surrogate's egg)

对不孕的女人来说，代孕给她们和她们的丈夫拥有自己亲生孩子的机会。有时是采用的是孩子父亲一方的精子和代孕母亲的卵子，孩子因而只有父亲一方的基因。

or completely (if they ask the surrogate co carry an embryo⁴ created from the mother's egg and the father's sperm).

有时是直接把父母双方精子卵子合成的胚胎注入代孕母亲的子宫里，那样孩子就拥有夫妻双方的基因了。

If they set up an open arrangement, the couple can be deeply involved in all the details of their baby's gestation⁵ and may be there for the birth of their baby.

如果代孕双方有公开声明，寻求代孕的夫妻可以深度参与代孕母亲妊娠的全程，还可以在现场见证孩子的出生。

In addition to its complicated procedures, surrogacy is highly controversial and can be legally complex.

而就其复杂的过程而言，代孕引起了很大的争议，而且涉及复杂的法律问题。

Some surrogates also face difficult emotional and psychological problems over letting the baby go.

有些代孕母亲在把孩子交给寻求代孕的夫妻后，感情和心理上都遭遇很大困境。

The infertile⁶ couple not only experience the usually anxiety of waiting for a pregnancy⁷ to reach full-term safely but also worry about legal trouble, the ethics⁸ of "buying" a child and the possibility that the surrogate will change her mind.

不育夫妻在期待代孕能安全顺利的过程中，不仅承受着很大压力，还要担心涉及的法律问题。他们需要在“买”孩子的伦理问题和代孕的可能性之间去权衡，以便做出选择。

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