The Metropolitan Church of Moldova urges Christian couples not to resort to surrogacy, warning that the practice has become a “booming business” where the “mystery of human birth is reduced to a simple commercial transaction”. The subject was discussed during the year's first meeting of the Synod of the Moldovan Orthodox Church, IPN reports.

According to a press release of the Metropolitan Church, the Synod members endorse the recent decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church regarding this practice. People are warned that surrogacy is increasingly becoming a profitable business for donors of sex cells and surrogate mothers. “The marriage blessed by God and founded on love and loyalty is replaced by the market of reproductive services for artificial birth of children according to desired parameters”, says the Moldovan Church.

The Church also advises young families to acknowledge the spiritual dimension of conceiving a child and to abstain from practices that contradict the Church teachings on reproduction.