Until Monday, Michigan was the only U.S. state that prohibited compensated surrogacy and surrogacy contracts. A new package of laws does away with the ban.
This Stowe guide explains what to consider when exploring Surrogacy as a route to parenthood, and the legal implications for birth and intended parents.
damage. it took firefighters from at least six fire departments to contain the blaze. authorities are investigating the cause of the fire. actor charlie sheen says he s now back on his hiv medication after he revealed on the dr. oz show tuesday that his viral count was back up. this comes on the heels of his exclusive today show interview last november where he first revealed his hiv positive status. actress sherri shepherd is appealing a court ruling that says she s responsible for a child born by a surrogate before she got divorced. this landmark ruling is the first to declare surrogacy contracts legal and binding in pennsylvania. shepherd had tried to avoid the contract when her marriage was ending. but her ex-husband is raising their 1-year-old son and seeking $4100 a month in child support. hey, guys, some potentially good news for you. a new study revealing foods rich with and a halfen oids may help some men ditch viagra. consuming citrus fruits, red wine and red and purp
when you hear from the perspective of the surrogate, crystal kelley, did you think she did the right thing? no, i don t. all moral issues aside, crystal kelley signed a legal document that explicitly stated, were there to be abnormalities found in the ultrasound, she would terminate the pregnancy. she s in breach of contract. and that sets a dangerous precedent for future surrogacies, that they can do whatever they want. if she was against abortion, she shouldn t have signed that document. interesting you bring up that point. we ll get to elizabeth, she has a take on that. wendy, what do you think? actually, the contract didn t define very much what extreme abnormalities were and that s where the exchange came in. but morals aside, the laws need to catch up with fertility medicine. we need to have laws that are clear state by state by state. and the surrogacy contracts need to be more clear and, by the way, the plot thickens because as it turns out, these parents who were parents