Womb to let

National Review, April 24, 1987 by Maggie Gallagher

If a surrogate contract isn't just a sophisticated excusefor baby-selling, then Mary Beth Whitehead deserves her $10,000. She did her job. She traveled to the clinic. She faithfully visited her doctor. She endured all the hardships of pregnancy. She produced an heir. Stern's family line survives.

Beside the right to your own children, all other libertiespale. If surrogate advocates have their way, we may soon live in a society in which fathers legally exploit mothers and mothers exploit their own children, in which judges ponder whether a loving mother may nurse her baby, and where the state can declare a woman mater non grata--because someone else outbids her for her child.