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By Diederika Pretorius. 239 pp. Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1994. $54.75. ISBN 0-398-05787-7.

On October 1, 1987, a South African woman gave birth to her grandchildren. Her daughter and son-in-law had undergone in vitro fertilization procedures, and she had served as the surrogate mother to triplets. Two weeks later, the South African legislature banned surrogate motherhood. If the grandmother had given birth just one month later, she would have been a criminal.

In Surrogate Motherhood, the South African law professor Diederika Pretorius tries to make sense of the law's position on surrogate motherhood by providing a fleeting overview of laws and professional guidelines in other nations and an analysis in more depth of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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