The Public Interest

Babies for sale

Robin Fox

Spring 1993

CAN YOU WRITE a commercial contract for a baby? Can a man buy his own child? Who owns the frozen embryos of a dead woman; can they be willed to third parties? It has been five years since the controversial and emotional “Baby M” case was legally settled, but we have barely begun to understand its implications.

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