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Indiana Court of Appeals: Surrogate not necessarily legal mother

By Alliance Alert

NWI Times: "A husband and wife who had their embryo implanted into a surrogate, who then gave birth to their child, moved one step closer to getting the wife named the legal mother rather than the surrogate. The Indiana Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a Porter Circuit Court decision that denied the husband and wife's petition to establish maternity on behalf of the wife, who they say is the biological mother even though a different woman gave birth. The woman who carried the child, the wife's sister, supports the wife's petition to be named mother."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).