Surrogate MotherHood

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f the inclusion of contracts, surrogacy started to come out more in the open and received much publicity. Agencies, profit and non-profit, that would help facilitate the process through which couples find willing surrogates (or vice versa) and engineer a contract for the two parties, have emerged all over the nation. Surrogacy became seen as a more legitimate and viable alternative for those who wanted to have children. For the women who wanted to act as the surrogates, it served as a good source to earn a substantial amount of money, while helping a couple realize their dream of having a child.
Given the description, one would think surrogate motherhood was an ideal solution for a couple that wanted to have a child but was unable to conceive naturally. However, not all surrogacy cases ended with the couple happily receiving their baby and the surrogate mother, satisfied with having helped her fellow human beings, taking her fee and ending all ties with the child. Unfortunately, as seen in the Baby M case, the surrogate mother, after bea...