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Surrogate Motherhood: A New Option for Parenting?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

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Abstract

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Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1984

References

Andrews, L., New Conceptions: A Consumer's Guide to the Newest Infertility Treatments, Including In Vitro Fertilization, Artificial Insemination, and Surrogate Motherhood (St. Manin's Press, New York, N.Y.) (1984).Google Scholar
Robertson, J.A., Surrogate Mothers: Not So Novel After All, Hastings Center Report 13(5): 28, 28 (October 1983).Google Scholar
See Robertson, J. A., Procreative Liberty and the Control of Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Virginia Law Review 69(3): 405 (1983).Google ScholarPubMed
For further arguments against surrogate parenting, see Krimmel, H. T., The Case Against Surrogate Parenting, Hastings Center Report 13(5): 35 (October 1983).Google ScholarPubMed
Surrogate Mothers: Not So Novel After All, supra note 2, at 33.Google Scholar
Legislative proposals have spanned the spectrum from prohibiting surrogate arrangements to facilitating them. New Jersey A. 3139 would make it a crime to participate in a surrogate mother arrangement. California, in A.B. 3771, aims to “facilitate the ability of infertile couples; to become parents through the employment of the services of a surrogate,” and allows reasonable compensation. H.B. 4114, in Michigan, aims to screen the surrogate and parents, to protect the natural mother's health, to spell out the contractual obligations of the parties, and to permit payment only of medical expenses and lost wages for the surrogate.Google Scholar