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's top religious affairs body has said surrogate motherhood was religiously unacceptable, as it contained elements of adultery.
The Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) announced on March 20 in vitro fertilization between unmarried individuals was not religiously acceptable, as it offended humane feelings and contained elements of adultery.
In an answer to a question on whether or not in vitro fertilization was licit to have babies, Diyanet's Religious High Council's platform, established to answer questions regarding Islam and the Islamic way of living, said as long as the sperm and the ovum to be fertilized belong to a married couple and the fertilized ovum is placed inside the ovum's beholder's womb, and "not inside a stranger's womb," then the in vitro fertilization method of bearing a child was religiously acceptable.
"An in vitro fertilization process that starts and finalizes between individuals who are not de facto married is religiously not acceptable as it offends humane feelings and contains elements of adultery," read a part of the statement.