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Further Commentary on Fox's “In the Matter of ‘Baby M’”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Robert L. Bard  and
Lewis Kurlantzick
Robert L. Bard
Affiliation:
School of Law, 65 Elizabeth St., University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT 06105-2290
Lewis Kurlantzick
Affiliation:
School of Law, 65 Elizabeth St., University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT 06105-2290
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Abstract

Modern science has made it easy for fertile women to become pregnant by artificial insemination. And childless couples have been able to find women willing, for a fee, to accept insemination by a prospective father and agree to transfer custody of the resulting child to the father. Enterprises designed to match willing mothers and sperm-donating fathers have established themselves. The central public policy dilemma raised by this union of technology and the ancient desire for issue of one's own loins—is it wiser for the legal system to provide its normal protections to the participants in surrogacy arrangements or withdraw from the field—was brought to national attention by the Baby M case.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Biotechnology and International Conflict , August 1990 , pp. 130 - 134
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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