The Nation - News from May 11, 1987
Mary Beth Whitehead has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to allow her overnight visits with the child she bore under a surrogate contract, saying the supervised visits now allowed bar her from normal activities shared by a mother and a child. The Brick Township homemaker is appealing the March 31 ruling by a Superior Court judge that upheld the surrogate contract between Whitehead and William Stern of Tenafly, the child’s biological father, in which Stern and his wife, Elizabeth, were awarded custody of the 13 1/2-month-old girl, known as Baby M.
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