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...medically imperfect; no one, after all, wants to buy defective merchandise. The surrogate mother promises "not to form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship." The baby, remember, is not her. The surrogate, say supporters, is selling not the baby, really, but the "use of her womb." She is nothing more than a producer, the prospective "parents" her consumer...
Mary Beth Whitehead signed an agreement stipulating that, in return for $10,000, she 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...
...Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, must have been watching movies since the womb. Their first film, the independently made hit Blood Simple, was a brilliant parody of film noir and the best example of that genre made since the death of James Cain. Raising Arizonais a different sort of film altogether, a hyperkinetic comedy with a budget. But it still betrays a rabid obsession with movies, from its constant toying with technical effects to the incessant Gremlins--style stream of references to others movies. Some are obvious, while others are maddeningly oblique and occasionally the film degenerates into a mass...
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. This is the oldest and by far the most common of the techniques prohibited. The Instruction not only opposes the introduction into a womb of sperm from a "third party" donor other than the husband but rejects the use of a husband's sperm. The first condemnation of artificial insemination came in a 1949 speech by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching has been ignored by many Catholic couples and disputed by some theologians...
...eggs, donor embryos, single women and lesbian couples. Lawyer George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University's School of Medicine, notes the possibility that a child could have five different parents: the father who donates sperm, the mother who produces the ovum, the mother who provides the womb, and the mother and the father who raise the child...