Baby M was a gift. Born a month prematurely, with a tuft of her father’s dark hair, she arrived no bigger than a loaf of bread. Mike Testa peered into his daughter’s eyes and beamed. She looks just ...

In 1986, the issue of surrogate parenting erupted in New Jersey when biological mother Mary Beth Whitehead decided she wanted to keep the child she gave birth to for William Stern, who donated the ...

The legal fight over a baby born in New Jersey thirty years ago this month changed the world of surrogacy forever. Now the Shrewsbury lawyer who represented surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead in the ...

The first time Tammy and Jordan Myers held their twins, the premature babies were still so fragile, their tiny faces were mostly covered by oxygen masks and tubing. Their little hands rested gently on ...

Over the past three decades, New York's public policy and attitude about surrogacy has come a long way. The story of surrogacy began with a tragedy—the 1980s case of Baby M (Matter of Baby M., 109 N.J ...

Birger M. Sween, a Superior Court judge whose key ruling on visiting rights brought the landmark Baby M surrogacy case to a close, died Saturday at a nursing facility in South Brunswick. He was 86.

Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural — "surrogate" — mother and father of a baby fought each other ...