present. By contrast, perhaps the greatest moral difficulty with surrogacy is that the surrogate is being invited to conceive a human being as a means to satisfying someone else’s desire to have a child. Clearly, the child then becomes an object, and, if money is paid the surrogate, a commodity. She makes of the child’s person and of her body and its procreative powers instruments in service of others’ purposes. That, Christians should be prepared to say, she ought not do. Surrogacy is often defended