Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people had given thought to the issues of surrogate birth. By last week, when the custody judgment was rendered, was there anyone still unschooled in its painful dilemmas? Even so, no one can have felt the lessons more deeply than the child's father, William Stern, a New Jersey biochemist who was awarded custody, or her mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, who lost the little girl she gave birth to as part of their surrogate agreement...
...BABY M case, decided last week, produced at least as much posturing as it did postulating among commentators. For feminists, the trial provided an opportunity for some male-bashing. And from the hawkers of surrogate parenting came the ridiculous claim that New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey R. Sorkow's ruling had made an honest woman of surrogacy...
...READ a recent ruling by New Jersey's lowest court...
Regardless of what the judge may decide this week in the Baby M. surrogate- mother trial in New Jersey, the case bequeaths a straightforward question that ought to be answered before the next such trial proves necessary: Are there any ethical limits on what one person may pay another to do? It is a question that rarely arises in the world of normal commerce, even in the modern service economy (of which the contract drawn between William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop...
...food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey state forest near Camden...