European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse To the Hoard of the baby m case.1, in lad by among other things denying the surrogate Mother s ngh to change hot mind while insisting that the intended Mol Hor must by truly unable to have a child of her own. Which May not have been True o mrs Stern i have no illusions Aboul Haw diff cull this is going Loba said stale sen. John. R. Dunne chairman of the pane. Bui the baby Mease has brought attention to Tho need to do something " while the Law gropes toward a balance on the Issue he demand for babies surges. About one american couple in sin is said to be unable to have children of heir own and the number of such couples la Likely to increase As women who up Oil Ehid bearing come under increased risks 1mm pregnancy an Issue that has been raised in the baby m. Case. At Iho same time abortion and birth control reduce the numbers of White babies available for adoptions and surrogate motherhood is overwhelmingly a White Middle class phenomenon. Besides the �10.000 Lee he charges for his service. Keane said he emotional rewards o his work Are Impf no one Speaks Lor infertile he went on. Although they May be one out of every sin married couples in this country they Are a very loosely connected group a very private group and their pain ind cries Are heard Only in their Homes and in their doctors Tolice and in Elliis Keane said he has files of Aboul 500 women who wish to become surrogate mothers including some Toho have performed the service More than onco the dossiers with names crossed out also lie in Iho Center s waiting room for prospective couples to examine in making a selection. Keene said he was sensitive to an aspect of the surrogate debate mat is rising to the surface the last that the surrogate mothers Ond to be from a lower social and economic Stalus than the adoptive parents. I am sensitive to thai question bul i can say that most of the volunteers who want to be surrogates Donal do it Lor the Money aspect but because they wish to share the Gilt of a child with a childless a study by a Wayne Sale University psychologist showed that surrogates emphasize their urge to help others bul added Hal 93 percent of the would be Mary Beth Whitehead the surrogate Mother who is trying to win Back her baby with her husband Richard surrogates interviewed said they would not do i without being paid. Others problems Are Likely to arise from arrangements such As the one Keane made for a japanese couple. Their embryo fertilized in a Laboratory is now growing in an american surrogate Mother. Keane said. Because the baby was conceived by he japanese woman s egg and her husband s sperm Tho baby will have none of tha american woman s characteristics meaning that biologically the surrogate is not oven the child s Mother. More Likely and possibly tragic Legal thickets await judges and legislators however said or Philip j. Parker the psychiatrist who conducted the study of would be surrogates. So far no surrogate has died in childbirth but what happens when one does he wondered or eventually a surrogate Mother will go crazy eventual a surrogate Mother will have a psychological break and kill the baby horrible things will happen. And Why not because it happens now anyway to women who Aren t surrogate. But when i happens with a surrogate someone will say i told you so " the court fight s Iho Ltd the far troubled youths the judge denied whilebe3d s request to have the baby every weekend and every third week a s an while head said of the county Home. They try to make it Homey. But it s like a doctor s office kind of for Stem High Point number one Ole act Day comes about 6 . With the first rustling from the baby s crib. Ill go into her room and she s always standing in the Corner of the crib facing the door Stern said High Point number two comes Al night when i come Home and she snarls crawling across the floor As soon As i come in Iii Don t pick her up right away she starts crying. To Stern and his wife the baby is an inquisitive acne Lillie girl with a love for mechanical toys Rice Cereal and just about anything thai makes noise Stern seems most taken by her curiosity. She looks Al every Little thing i he said in a Brief conversation. That s the really amazing thing when i measure out her Cereal in the morning four Tablespoons she watches. When i open the refrigerator door she tries to Slick her head
