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Surrogacy or surrogate motherhood is a much-discussed issue in applied ethics. Surrogate motherhood is defined as bearing a child by one person for another person. The problem of infertility is age-old problem. Infertile couples and others may seek the services of Surrogate mothers if other procedures, such as adoption, are not options for them. On the other, it has given rise to host of ethical questions which are difficult to solve. Since last few decades there has been a rapid and profound change in the outlook and attitude, means of tradition towards marriage and the family, or of family formation. Marriage and traditional family formation has its own importance and value, but still a number of alternative ways of family formation are used by people who are infertile. With the advancement in Biology reproductive science have come in with techniques such as donor insemination, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer methods, which have completely revolutionized the reproductive environment. These techniques have given hope to many infertile couples, who wish to have a child of their own. Motherhood was never under much scrutiny as it was the natural and conclusive fact establishing it. However, several developments in recent past made us thoughtful.