The Surrogate Uterus: Baby M and the Bioethics Commission Report
Governor Christie’s recent veto of a “gestational” surrogacy bill should prompt us to look at the legal history of surrogacy and the terrible injustices that it causes.On August 8, 2012, New Jersey...
View ArticleThe Surrogate Uterus: The AGR Case and Melissa Brisman
The question of surrogacy has always been more about us than about the participants in the relationship. Will we use the power of the people to take a child from the arms of her mother when the mother...
View ArticleTeach Your Children: Assisted Suicide and My Family
In November 2014, the New Jersey Assembly voted to pass a new statute entitled “Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.” In December, the Senate version of the assisted suicide act was released from...
View ArticleRemembering Jane Roe and Mary Doe: The Courage of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano
Seventeen years ago, I received a phone call from Norma McCorvey. “I will do anything to overturn my decision in Roe v. Wade,” she told me—and she asked me to help her. Norma, of course, was the...
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