Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. The surrogate may be the child's genetic mother (called traditional surrogacy), or she may be genetically unrelated to the child (called gestational surrogacy). In a traditional surrogacy, the child may be conceived via home artificial insemination using fresh or frozen sperm or impregnated via IUI (intrauterine insemination), or ICI (intracervical insemination) performed at a health clinic. A gestational surrogacy requires the transfer of a previously created embryo, and for this reason the process always takes place in a clinical setting.

The intended parent or parents, sometimes called the social parents, may arrange a surrogate pregnancy because of female infertility, other medical issues which make pregnancy or delivery impossible, risky or otherwise undesirable, or because the intended parent or parents are male. The sperm or eggs may be provided by the 'commissioning' parents, but donor sperm, eggs and embryos may also be used. Although the idea of vanity surrogacy is a common trope in popular culture and anti-surrogacy arguments,[1] there is little or no data showing that women choose surrogacy for reasons of aesthetics or convenience.[2]

Monetary compensation may or may not be involved in surrogacy arrangements. If the surrogate receives compensation beyond the reimbursement of medical and other reasonable expenses, the arrangement is called commercial surrogacy; otherwise, it is often referred to as altruistic surrogacy.[3] The legality and costs of surrogacy vary widely between jurisdictions, which results in high rates of international and interstate surrogacy activity.

In view of this, I consulted three pastor and this is what I got

Pastor1:
"First of all, you should know that artificial insemination is a sin. It is sin because it opposes God's ordained process of child delivery. If the woman is barren, she should go to God. And you know that some women in their bid to keep shape hire serrogates to give them babies. So I emphatically condemn serrogation"

Pastor2:
"Do u know that this issue is complicated. But an open minded believer that understands God will not count serrogacy as sin. Only by se*x is it sin. The reason being because God said we should not commit adultery and He gave no exception. So as long as it is by artificial insemination, its not a sin. Except if the couple have hidden agenda se*x is sin but artificial insemination is not"

Pastor3
"Am looking at the child that is being given away. Its like selln your child to a couple in d name of doing dem a favor. Your God given child. And there have been a lot of court cases where the original mother of the child comes back in the future to claim the child. So for me, its a two way thing. Its a sin, and on the other hand, its not a sin"

Who is right amongst these three men?

If you have a different view, pls share.

The Catholic Church teaches that it is a sin.

italo: The Catholic Church teaches that it is a sin.

pls can u site their argument?