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While news teams from as far away as Sweden and the Soviet Union looked on, Judge Harvey Sorkow, 57, read his decision for three hours to a packed courtroom in Hackensack, N.J. Declaring the contract valid, he rejected arguments that it might violate public policy or laws against baby selling. A father cannot buy "what is already his," the judge said. He maintained that the surrogacy option was protected under constitutional privacy guarantees that include the right to procreate. In a crucial caveat, however, he said the contract was not automatically enforceable, because when conflicts arose the "best interests...
NEWS:Jonathan M. Moses '88 of Winthrop House and Hackensack, New Jersey, Managing Editor. Shari Rudavsky '88 of Lowell House and New York, New York, Managing Editor. Jonathan F. Putnam '88 of Quincy House and Lexington, Massachusetts, Senior Editor. James D. Solomon '87-'88 of Quincy House and New York, New York, Special Projects Editor. James Editor Schwartz '88 of Dunster House and Newton, Massachusett Associate Editor. Geoffrey H. Simon '88 of Lowell House and Short Hills, New Jersey, Sports Editor. Mark T. Brazaitis '89 North House and Washington, D.C., Assistant Sports Editor. Andrea E. Monfried '88 of Eliot House...
...crowded courtroom in Hackensack, N.J., listeners heard repeated last week the now familiar outlines of the story. William Stern, 40, a biochemist, and his wife Elizabeth, 41, a pediatrician, contracted with Whitehead early in 1985 for her to conceive a child through artificial insemination and carry it on their behalf. The three were brought together through the Infertility Center of New York, a for-profit Manhattan agency. The Sterns chose Whitehead, now 29, after reviewing and rejecting the applications of 300 women. Some drank. Some smoked cigarettes or marijuana. Some just did not look the part. The Sterns wanted...
Mary Beth Whitehead looked pale and shaken. Minutes before, New Jersey Family Court Judge Harvey Sorkow had denied her request to regain temporary custody of her five-month-old daughter. Surrounded by reporters and cameramen in the courthouse lobby in Hackensack last week, she told them in a trembling voice, "I have three children, and two of them cannot see their sister. I don't think that's fair...
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