Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the Michigan Family Protection Act into law, becoming the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy, passing a package of bills that protects parents and families with surrogacy or in vitro fertilization.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was at the Royal Oak Public Library on Monday morning to sign a package of bills known as the Michigan Family Protection Act, lifting a prohibition on those who have children through a surrogate.
Michigan has become the last state to end its ban on paid surrogacy contracts, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday. Previously, surrogacy was punishable by fines and jail time.