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Article: SURROGATE-MOTHER LAW NEEDED, LEGISLATORS TOLD
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1987
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Indiana needs a law to sort out the moral and legal questions posed by surrogate mother contracts, an Indianapolis attorney told a legislative study committee Wednesday.
"It's not for the lawyers to make judgments of what is moral and ethical. It's for the state legislature to decide it as a matter of public policy," Franklin I. Miroff told the General Assembly's Interim Study Committee on Family Law.
"Having no written word (on surrogate motherhood) is the worst of all folly," said Miroff, who has handled a surrogate mother case. "All the medical advances have to be addressed now."
In a typical surrogate mother case, a ...