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To the Editor: I disagree with Annas about how best to identify the mother and father of a child born of a gestational (biologically unrelated) surrogate (Sept. 24 issue).¹ People with firsthand knowledge about surrogacy know that it would nearly always be inimical to the best interests of a child to establish, whether through statute or case law, that the woman who gives birth to the child must be deemed the child's mother.

The Buzzanca case is atypical of gestational surrogacy because the child was not genetically related to either of its intended parents. My wife and I are currently . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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