Baby M, Surrogate Parenting and Public Policy

Gayle Binion

Review of Policy Research, 1992, vol. 11, issue 1, 126-140

Abstract: This article analyzes the legal and politiml controversies that have arisen in response to the contemporary phenomenon of surrogate parenting. Despite the fact that by the late 1980s 1,000 or more such agreements had been efected, prior to the Baby M litigation no relevant statutes had been passed by state or federal legislafures. The practice continued to exist in a virtual vacuum of public policy with respect to its legality andor the relative rights of the various parties involved. Special attention is paid to the Baby M ruling of the New Jersey Supreme Court as a model for public policy on the subject. The signifimnce of the Court's ruling in shaping subsequent political activity on surrogacy is also noted.

Date: 1992
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