Article: PROPOSED SURROGATE MOTHER LAW RAPPED WOMAN INVOLVED IN CUSTODY SUIT TESTIFIES BEFORE PANEL MULLING LEGISLATION

CONCORD, N.H. - Emphatic and sometimes tearful testimony from a surrogate mother and her 11-year-old daughter yesterday prompted a legislative committee to review its final draft of proposed legislation on surrogate motherhood.

"Children are not elegant little presents we can wrap up with a bow and send out the door," said Diane Rothberg of Boston, who gave birth 2 1/2 years ago in a surrogate contract and has filed a lawsuit to get her child back. "Life is not an elegant little package that you can barter or sign away."

"All I know is that this bill is being proposed and that it supposedly has safeguards," Rothberg told seven members of the study committee drafting the legislation. ...

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