The conversations that had once revolved around names, nurseries, and due dates slowly gave way to probabilities, prognoses, and percentages. It is this understanding of the child that makes surrogacy morally significant. How we answer that question shapes not only how we understand surrogacy, but also how we speak about and understand abortion itself. Is it because acknowledging the reality of coerced abortion would require admitting that abortion itself can become the means by which others exercise control over a woman? They challenge not merely a contract, but assumptions about autonomy, choice, and the nature of the unborn child.