"How can another woman carry my own child in her own womb for nine good months? That's absurd! Am I not a woman too? Will that make her the mother? Will the child be more attached to her than me? What will people say?...What will they think? Will I have a bond with the child? These are some of the vocal thoughts of most conservative women in Africa especially in Nigeria when it comes to the topic of Surrogacy. In developed countries, the concept of surrogacy has been widely accepted by majority of women and men. But before we go further, we need to understand what surrogacy is and what it entails. Surrogacy is an arrangement often supported by legal agreement whereby a woman (the surrogate) agrees to bear a child for a person or persons who later becomes the child's parents. In gestational surrogacy, an egg is removed from the intended mother or an anonymous donor and fertilized with the sperm of the intended father or anonymous donor. The fertilized egg, or embryo,