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This story challenges traditional conception of the biological mother.
Is the biological mother the person who gives birth or the person who the related genes.
However, this problem of the "biological mother" exists because I have coalesced in the term "biological mother" two other related terms namely: the birth mum and the genetic mother.
Before the strides in genetics, it had been always that the biological mother meant your birth mother and genetic mother.
But human society leaps forward many assumed and foundational parts of human society are and will be challenged. As evident, one casualty is the traditional concept: "biological mother"
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