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Beyond Baby M pp 183–200Cite as

The Case of Baby M

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Many changes have taken place in recent years in the area of assisted reproduction. One of the more controversial is surrogate motherhood, which is used primarily when a woman either is infertile or, for other reasons, cannot or will not bear her own biological child. Her partner’s sperm is artificially inseminated in a “surrogate,” who agrees to surrender the child to the couple at birth. Such surrogates are normally paid.

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  1. Janna C. Merrick
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  1. Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Dianne M. Bartels , Reinhard Priester , Dorothy E. Vawter  & Arthur L. Caplan , ,  & 

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Merrick, J.C. (1990). The Case of Baby M. In: Bartels, D.M., Priester, R., Vawter, D.E., Caplan, A.L. (eds) Beyond Baby M. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4510-0_11

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