Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even New Jersey has had occasion to disavow the Giants. At the final game of 1978, considered the low point in a post-'50s depression, an indignant little airplane buzzed Giant Stadium towing an ultimatum: 15 YEARS OF LOUSY FOOTBALL; WE'VE HAD ENOUGH. The comeback begun on that note has at last brought the Giants to Pasadena, where they are the bright and favored stars of Super Bowl XXI (also featuring the Denver Broncos...
...court battle over Baby M. will answer only a part of that question. In deciding the case, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey Sorkow becomes the first judge in the U.S. asked to enforce a surrogate agreement. He could treat the case mainly as a contract dispute, rule that the contract is valid and award the child to the Sterns. Or he could opt to treat it basically as a custody battle; then the best interests of the child would be the guiding principle. Custody is often awarded to mothers, but since Baby M. has been living with the Sterns...
...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 paid...
...accompanied by five policemen. In the confusion, Richard Whitehead slipped away with the child through a bedroom window. The Whiteheads then fled with the baby to Florida, where they were tracked down by a private detective hired by the Sterns. Authorities took the infant and returned her to New Jersey. Last September, Judge Sorkow gave temporary custody to the Sterns, but he allowed Mary Beth Whitehead to spend two hours twice a week with Baby M. on the neutral turf of a local children's home...
...want people bought and sold in this country." Some religious groups vehemently oppose the practice. The Roman Catholic Church, which condemns artificial insemination outside of marriage, regards surrogacy as a violation of the biological and spiritual unity of husband and wife. In a joint statement last month, New Jersey's bishops further contended that surrogacy "exploits a child as a commodity and exploits a woman as a babymaker...