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Alas, as Hi mournfully notes, "biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep us childless." Translation: Ed is barren, and the adoption agencies are not persuaded that a three-time loser would be a suitable father. Then Hi and Ed hear of a man who has more babies than he could find any honorable use for. This is Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), the Unfinished- Furniture King of the Southwest and sire of Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry and Nathan Jr., the famous Arizona quints. It is a temptation no child-hungry couple could resist. They should have, though...
...church circles is Daniel Maguire, a liberal theologian at Marquette University, who opposes official teaching on abortion. "It's a document born into obsolescence. Rome is speaking to the Catholic right wing and from the Catholic right wing." Edward Marut, a Chicago-area Catholic doctor and fertility expert, says childless Catholics are "incensed" at the church's tough line. Two days after the Vatican's prohibition was issued, Susan Fitter, 33, of Lawton, Okla., who has been trying to have a child for four years, went ahead with her decision to use in vitro fertilization with her husband's sperm...
...modest two-story bungalow on the island of Anguilla with Carroll Douglass, fortyish, whom he met last year. If she is to be believed, the two are "totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized by a mentally confused woman. Whatever the legal resolution may be, the beach tableau of this forlorn couple in their palm- fringed haven, with meager funds and not many friends, seemed ineffably...
...bond between mother and child? Has it opened the way to a dismal baby industry, in which well-to-do couples rent out the wombs of less affluent women, sometimes just to spare themselves the inconvenience of pregnancy? Yet if surrogacy is prohibited, has a promising way for childless couples to have families been denied them? And what if the truest answer to those questions is also the most problematical -- yes to all the above...
Mary Beth Whitehead seemed perfect. A housewife with two school-age children by her husband Richard, she had wanted to become a surrogate mother to help a childless couple. She claimed to want no more children of her own. After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They...