Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couples who have struggled for years to have a child, the phrase "you are pregnant" is magical. "We thought we would never hear those words," sighs Risa Green, 35, of Framingham, Mass., now the mother of a month-old boy. But even if the news is good, the tension continues. One-third of IVF pregnancies spontaneously miscarry in the first three months, a perplexing problem that is currently under investigation. Says one veteran of Steptoe's program: "Every week you call for test results to see if the embryo is still there. Then you wait to see if your period...
Valerie is a New Jersey mother of two boys, age two and three, whom she describes as "little monsters full of mischief." Her husband works as a truck driver, and money is tight. The family of four is living with her mother while they save for an apartment of their own. One day last March, Valerie, 23, who prefers to remain anonymous, saw the following advertisement in a local New Jersey paper: Surrogate mother wanted. Couple unable to have child willing to pay $10,000 fee and expenses to woman to carry husband's child. Conception by artificial insemination...
...donor's sperm, has been widely practiced since the 1960s and has led to about 250,000 births in the U.S. alone, but the law is only gradually accepting it. A New York court ruled in 1963 that a child born by AID was illegitimate even if the mother's husband consented; another New York court ruled the opposite a decade later. Now 25 states, including New York, have statutes governing AID babies, recognizing them as the legitimate children of mother and her husband (providing the husband has consented to the procedure). Elsewhere, all kinds of consequences remain...
...Surrogate mothers have been bearing other people's children since the late 1970s, and the number of such births in the U.S. so far totals at least 100, perhaps 150, but the law here is even more ambiguous. No state has a statute specifically dealing with surrogates, but about a dozen have been considering measures ranging from permission to an outright ban. At least 24 states have old laws generally forbidding payment to a woman who gives up a child for adoption, as surrogate mother is expected to do. Moreover, private contracts between prospective parents and surrogate mothers...
...basic complexities; the refinements are myriad. If a married couple can use a donor to help create a baby, for example, should a single woman who wants a child be allowed the same right? What about a lesbian, or a transexual or a homosexual male couple? If a surrogate mother contracts to bear another couple's child, does she have the right to smoke and drink in defiance of their wishes? Does she have the right to an abortion? And what of the baby born through such methods: Does it have a right to know its biological parents...