Stewart, Kirsten,

Parenthood by Proxy: Senior Lawmaker, Utah Mom Helping Childless. Kirsten Stewart. - Salt Lake Tribune, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 9, Family, 1522-3213; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Parenthood by Proxy: Senior Lawmaker, Utah Mom Helping Childless, Jan. 23, 2005; pp. A1+.

"Crystal Young of Payson [Utah] plans to fulfill a Japanese couple's dream of parenthood as their gestational surrogate--a solution that a Utah senator wants to legalize. As women nationwide serve as surrogates, laws have not kept up--leaving gestational mothers, yearning parents and babies on uncertain ground." (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE) This article, first in a three-part series, follows a Utah woman who is serving as a surrogate mother for a Japanese couple and reports on efforts by Republican Sen. Lyle Hillyard to get a bill passed in Utah to "legalize gestational surrogacy."

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Fertilization in vitro--Human
Infertility
Insurance--Health
State legislatures
Surrogate motherhood--Laws and legislation
Surrogate mothers


Utah

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