Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would permit herself to be impregnated by William Stern's sperm, carry the product of that union in her womb and then surrender the resulting child to Stern. Sorkow refused to see so straight forward an agreement obscured. He prohibited any discussion of the nature of the bond between mother and child and barred testimony about the legality of surrogate parenting...
...awarded custody to Stern, permitted Elizabeth Stern to adopt the baby on the spot and--keeping things tidy--denied the court-appointed guardian's recommendation that the natural mother retain some parental rights. A deal, Sorkow's ruling reminded those who may have forgotten the schoolyard-taunt of a kid who has taken advantage of another, is a deal...
...mobile human incubator. Stern wanted what Whitehead could provide and agreed to a price. What went unaccounted for in the deal was Whitehead's joy at the baby's first kick, whatever sense of expectation surges together with a bout of morning sickness and the satisfaction of a mother holding her child in a delivery room...
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...
Oughta: Tom Berenger, Platoon. Just a tad bit better than Willem Dafoe's Good Angel, Berenger's performance as Bad Mother Barnes gave this movie an edge it would otherwise have lacked. I'd like to see them split the Oscar--live, on stage, with a grenade or something...