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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, June 29, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 29, 19bb the stars and stripes surrogate parenting for pay banned by new Michigan Law Page 7 Lansing Mich. A gov. James Blanchard monday signed into Law a ban on pregnancy for pay. Making Michigan the first stale to establish surrogate Par pm ing As a crime. Brokers who arrange surrogate Paroni contracts in Michigan will be subject to felony penalties of up to five years in jail and a 150,000 Fine under the statute effective sept. I. Those who contract for a birth or agree to Bear a child for Money will risk Misdemeanour penalties of up to 90 Days in j a in and a $ 1  Fine. Bianchard said he was signing the Bill Wilh reservations but added it is a significant improvement Over the uncertainty and confusion of existing  Sale sen. Connie dins end a former Michigan to incr of the year pushed inc Bill through the legislature. She has said her goal was to drive out of Michi Gan one of the nation s most prolific sur Rogate matchmakers Dearborn attorney Noel Kane who takes credit for arranging 228 surrogate births including new Jersey 5 baby  Keane said the new Law Wilt Force him o upend classified advertising and Nan a c Alt surrogacy matchmaking out of his infer oilily Center in new York cily. It s nol going to Stop surrogate Par enting he said. Howard Simon executive director of the Michigan american civil liberties Union said inc Acle is considering inc possibility of a constitutional Challenge. I think the governor made an error on this one said Simon adding that the Bill intrudes on the privacy of couples in Michigan facing the Heartbreak of in Fertility and Childess Ness but Jeremy Rifkin co chairman of he National coalition against surrogacy said the governor s action Mark the beginning of the end of commercial surrogacy in the United  under the new Law women who want to Bear a child then give up inc baby to another couple still could do so and Bro Ken could still arrange surrogate births but they All would have to do it for free. Typically infertile couples pay a Bro Ker 110,000 to match them Wilh a would be Mother. They pay another $10,000 to the woman who agrees to be Ani finally inseminated carry the child then give up custody. They also pay for the insemination medical procedures prenatal care Hospital Bills and other pregnancy Rel Ald expenses. Ron Humphries of Salem a hurried his pickup truck into a Back Yard swimming Pool in Art Effort to Bent inc pick me up up photo heat by temperatures climbed into inc 90�. Enjoying Cooling dip with Humphries is his daughter Kim poll finds Bush Nunn not giving data to Dukakis trails Reagan s 1984 showing Washington not vice present George Bush is lagging behind president Reagan s 1984 show ing in virtually All groups but is faring particularly badly among disaffected and financially pressed voters who embraced the president four years ago according to a study released monday. However the study conducted for the times Mir ror company by the Gallup organization offered Bush at least some mildly heartening news. While the vice president trails Massachusetts gov. Michael s. Dukakis nationwide 53 percent 10 40 percent Duka Kis supporters arc not yet strongly committed to him. The poll found that More than half of Dukakis sup port comes from those saying they were casting negative votes against the vice or Stdeni not positive votes for Dukakis. Such findings help explain the Bush Campaign s cur rent strategy of trying to raise doubts about who Duka Kis is and wha he stands for. For the moment inc Survey indicated Dukakis is a mildly acceptable alter native for anti Bush voters Andrew Kohut president of the Gallup Organiza Tion said Many of the 1984 Reagan voters who were switching to Dukakis tended to be  this was especially True of a group he described As the Dis affect eds who Are anti Washington and conservative on issues such As race and crime but Are also sceptical of big business and feel themselves financially pressed. Bush s recent attacks on Dukakis As being Loo Liberal on Law and order issues and As supporting tax increases in Massachusetts Are clearly aimed at trying to woo this constituency Back to the Republican party. The study which was based on interviews with 3,021 adults from May 13 to May 22, presented a picture of a Republican coalition in a state of rapid decomposition. On the one hand. Bush leads by substantial margins among hard Core republicans notably two kinds of conservatives that the study called enterprises and moralists the first Are described As Well to do eco nomic conservatives whose main emphasis is on Low taxes and free markets the second Are moderate in come social conservatives who care most about moral issues such As abortion and school prayer. Washington a sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia who has been saying he does t wan to be on the democratic ticket a declined to provide Finan Cial and other background information the Michael Dukakis Campaign is seeking from prospective running males Nunn said monday in a Telephone interview that he told Dukakis he s not interested in the vice presidency so t would be inconsistent for him to make such Back ground information available he knows my position on the vice presidency Nunn said. I be told him i be told Dukakis aide Paul Brountas and others that that was not on my Agenda. Brountas has been heading up the search for a run Ning male for Dukakis. Sources have identified Nunn As one of several prospective running mates who have been asked to pro vide background informal Ion. Nunn refused to confirm that he has been asked for such information doing confidentiality in his talks with he nominee apparent but he said he has no plans to provide it. I m not furnishing any he Slid. I have not furnished any he said however that he has a meeting Sel with Dukakis who is Corning to Washington on wednesday to meet Wilh democratic senators including some to to Colial running mates. "1 plan to have a discussion with the governor on National Security or whatever else he wants to talk Aboul but 1 have no plans to set into inc financial informal Ion business or the medical records or any of that stuff Nunn said. The Georgia senator is chairman of the Senate armed services committee. Dukakis said last week that if any of he Prosper Clive vice presidential running mates ruled themselves out clearly and unequivocally to me then obviously i m not going to press the  Dukakis made that comment Afi Ersen. Bill Bradley. D-nj., announced through a spokesman that he was nol interested in the Job. Deaf mystery boy believed identified Elpaso Texas Fuji the deaf mule mystery boy found wandering the streets of Juarez Mexico has been tentatively identified As a mexican child re ported missing eight months ago by his Mother the Fri and mexican social workers said monday. Fri agent Terry Kincaid in Elpaso said the 7 or 8 year old boy known by child Relief workers in neigh Boring Ciudad Juarez As Sabat apparently is nol an american child As earlier believed put a missing child named Jose do Jesus Garcia do Aguilera from the mex ican town of Carapico. Relief workers said the child found wandering the streets of Juarez in november made drawings and gestures indicating he was an american and that his parents and Sisters were killed in a plane crash. But Kincaid said mexican officials with the depart ment of integrated families in Tampico now say a bats description matches photos of a boy treated at their Center for children about a year ago. In Tampico Juanita Barazal de Galindo a social worker for the National program for integral family development said the child was identified from Tele vision reports by a woman who said she was the child smother. The child in Juarez has tentatively been identified Barazal said. His Mother saw the boy on television and called us to identify him. Her son disappeared from Tampico last november. The boy in Juarez has the same scars on his legs As the boy who disappeared and is also  Barazal said the Mother planned to leave tuesday for Ciudad Juarez to identify the boy and bring him Home Kincaid said the Tampico woman reported her child missing eight months ago. The mexican Relief worker who found the child in november said the boy was asked in rough gestures where he lived and indicated he should be taken to the Juarez Airport. He then indicated to social workers through sketches and gestures thai his parents and Sia Ter died in a plane crash Kincaid said authorities now believe Sabal named for the Spanish word for saturday Sabado because that was the Day he was found in Juarez May have travelled from Tampico to Juarez by hitchhiking ride son trucks or buses. From the outset there has been great concern on everyone s part to communicate Wilh inc boy the ouija whatever Means  Kincaid said. They were doing their Best to interpret what Means they thought he was usog to communicate with them  
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