Twenty-five years after the landmark Baby M case focused international attention on the rights of surrogate mothers in New Jersey, state lawmakers are poised to consider a new measure that would allow residents to formally contract with — and pay — women to carry a donated embryo to term.
The move has rekindled the kind of emotional reactions that were so much a part of the Baby M controversy, with backers of the bill and its opponents scrambling to press their arguments before a vote in the state Senate on Thursday.
