Dr. Andrea Mulligan:

It is really important. There may be an idea of the gestater as a carrier or container but she is absolutely not. She grew and gestated that baby. She is very important. Ethical surrogacy regulation must fundamentally acknowledge that. Part of doing that is by looking fairly at this question of pre-birth and post-birth orders. It is also about looking at questions of identity as well. In surrogacy we must really be aware of this narrative that the gestater is just a container or a vessel. It is not what she is, fundamentally.