The Nation - News from Feb. 20, 1987
A woman fighting in court to keep the baby she bore under contract testified in Superior Court in Hackensack, N.J., that one day she’ll tell the child the surrogate agreement was a mistake. Meanwhile, a character witness for the surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, admitted that she forged a May 18 letter to the judge presiding in the case, Harvey R. Sorkow, and that she lied in earlier testimony about it. Susan Hergenhan, a former neighbor of Whitehead, said she wrote the letter in response to allegations by the biological father, William Stern, while Whitehead was in Florida.
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