Surrogacy

The landmark Baby M case in New Jersey resulted in the state Supreme Court ruling surrogacy contracts unenforceable and restoring parental rights to the biological surrogate mother, highlighting legal and ethical challenges in surrogacy arrangements. Despite this ruling, surrogacy use grew with IVF advancements, including the first U.S. IVF surrogate birth involving a New Jersey family, marking a shift to gestational surrogacy where the surrogate is not the biological mother.