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University of Washington School of Law

Family Law

2014

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Foreword: Compensated Surrogacy In The Age Of Windsor, Kellye Y. Testy Jan 2014

Foreword: Compensated Surrogacy In The Age Of Windsor, Kellye Y. Testy

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The Future Of Compensated Surrogacy In Washington State: Anytime Soon?, Terry J. Price Jan 2014

The Future Of Compensated Surrogacy In Washington State: Anytime Soon?, Terry J. Price

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Americans in the mid-1980s were shocked by the facts of the Baby M case. That case, a compensated surrogacy arrangement that publicly went very wrong, raised complicated issues that the country had not considered: whether a woman could contract to carry a pregnancy for another person without becoming the legal mother; whether she could be separated from the child at birth, even though it was her genetic offspring; and whether the contract could take precedence over a mother’s regret over giving up the child. As a result of that case, a number of states, including Washington, prohibited compensated surrogacy arrangements. …