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co-maternity

co-maternity noun: the state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).

Noun

co-maternity (countable and uncountable, plural co-maternities)

  1. The state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).
    • Developments in jurisprudence and legislation thus suggest a growing openness to identifying a birth mother and her same-sex partner as a child’s ‘natural’ or ‘original’ parents whether that child has been conceived through assisted reproduction. But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and...2007 January 13, Angela Campbell, “Conceiving Parents Through Law”, in International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, volume 21, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 256
    • Utvalget har vurdert hvilke regler som bør gjelde ved fastsettelse av farskap, morskap og medmorskap for barn som er født som et resultat av assistert befruktning i utlandet.2009, Aslak Syse, Trude Haugli, Øivind Johansen, Anne Margrethe Lund, Margurethe Stenersen, Arne Sunde, Gitte Gulbrandsen, Geir Helgeland, Farskap og annen morskap: Fastsettelse og endring av...

Examples of co-maternity in a sentence

  • But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and tenuous.2007 January 13, Angela Campbell, “Conceiving Parents Through Law”, in International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, volume 21...
  • The legal issues for those pursuing co-maternity or egg-sharing are no less complex.2016, Elizabeth F. Schwartz, “LGBT Issues in Surrogacy: Present and Future Challenges”, in E. Scott Sills, editor, Handbook of Gestational...

Forms of co-maternity

pluralco-maternities

Origin of co-maternity

From co- + maternity.

Questions about co-maternity

What does co-maternity mean?
Co-maternity means the state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).
How do you use co-maternity in a sentence?
But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and tenuous.
What part of speech is co-maternity?
Co-maternity is a noun.
What is the plural of co-maternity?
The plural of co-maternity is co-maternities.

Words near co-maternity in the dictionary

  1. co-location
  2. co-locations
  3. co-manager
  4. co-managers
  5. co-maternities
  6. co-maternity
  7. co-meddled
  8. co-mingle
  9. co-mingled
  10. co-mingles
  11. co-mingling

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