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Article: Surrogate mother legislation passes Oklahoma House committee.
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- March 11, 2004
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2004 MAR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A proposed Oklahoma state law that would open the door for women to serve as surrogate mothers for childless parents could lead to child trafficking, opp1nts told a legislative committee February 16, 2004.
The House Judiciary Committee passed the Oklahoma Surrogate Parenting Act in spite of concerns expressed by adoption prop1nts that it would bring about fundamental changes in the definition of motherhood.
"It makes the child a commodity," said Michael A. Nomura, president of Heritage Family Services, Inc., of Tulsa.
The measure's author, Representative Ray Miller, D-Quinton, said the bill would ...