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(a) Medical jurisprudence-- ---.----"Surrogacy"---.---Meaning---.---Surrogacy meant 'appointed to act in place of'---.---Surrogacy was a technique of assisted reproduction wherein woman bore and delivered child for other couples---.---Where a man was incapable of producing a child and the sperm was obtained from a third person that could not be called a case of surrogacy for the simple reasons that the child did not belong to the father---.---Issue of surrogacy arose when the woman was hired for carrying a child for a couple for some monetary or other consideration---.---Surrogate mother was paid certain amounts for carrying out the child for nine months and then producing child for another woman---.---For all practical purposes the surrogate mother gave her womb on rent. (b) Constitution of Pakistan---.--- ---.----Art. 203-D---.---Shariat petition---.---Medical jurisprudence---.---Surrogacy---.---Repugnancy to Injunction of Islam---.---Child produced through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure by using sperm of a third person---.---Where the husband was not in a position to produce a child or there was some problem in the sperm of the husband and the sperm was obtained from a third person, in that case the child would belong to the person, from whom the sperm had been obtained---.---Child would not belong to the husband who had arranged the sperm from a third person---.---Even if the egg belonged to the wife of the person who had arranged the sperm from a third person, for all practical purposes the child would belong to the person from whom the sperm had been obtained---.---Such an arrangement would be illegal and against the injunction of Holy Qur'an and Sunnah---.---Shariat petition was disposed of accordingly. (c) Constitution of Pakistan---.--- ---.----Art. 203-D---.---Shariat petition---.---Medical jurisprudence---.---Surrogacy---.---Repugnancy to Injunction of Islam---.---Child produced through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure by using sperm of the husband, eggs of the wife, and placing the embryo in the womb of the wife---.---Where the sperm had been obtained from husband and the egg from the wife and the same had been fertilized in the test…