Battle Over Paid Surrogacy Opens New Front
By Alexandra Sifferlin,
Time
| 01. 28. 2015
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The bill is personal for this New York senator
In many states, hiring a woman to carry and give birth to a child for you is illegal. But democratic New York Senator Brad Hoylman is fighting to change that in his home state. On Wednesday, he and the New York State assembly re-filed a bill called the Child-Parent Security Act to legalize compensated surrogacy in New York, and provide protections that ensure surrogates are entering into legal agreements and there’s no question that the intended parents of the child have full rights.
For him, the issue is personal and political.
New York forbids compensated surrogacy and is the only state where criminal penalties can be imposed on people who enter into a paid surrogacy agreement. That means that couples who want to use a surrogate to have a child that they’re genetically related must travel to a state where the practice is legal in order to do so.
That’s what Hoylman and his husband David Sigal did. Their daughter Silvia, now 4, was born via a surrogate in...
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