The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1987
Surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead, citing stress from her losing battle for custody of the child she bore under contract, has separated from her husband, her attorney said. The lawyer, Harold Cassidy, said in a statement that the couple have no immediate intention of reuniting. Whitehead, 30, was stripped of her parental rights in the landmark Baby M case when a New Jersey judge ruled in March that the contract she had signed with William and Elizabeth Stern was valid.
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