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Article: PROPOSED SURROGATE MOTHER LAW RAPPED WOMAN INVOLVED IN CUSTODY SUIT TESTIFIES BEFORE PANEL MULLING LEGISLATION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1989
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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. ...