The 56 page Maryland decision in In Re Roberto d B. rendered last week can be found here. KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 writes:
A surrogate mother who has no genetic connection to the baby she is carrying
does not have to be listed as the mother on a birth certificate, Maryland’s
highest court ruled Wednesday.
The 56 page Maryland decision in In Re Roberto d B. rendered last week can be found here. KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 writes:
A surrogate mother who has no genetic connection to the baby she is carrying
does not have to be listed as the mother on a birth certificate, Maryland’s
highest court ruled Wednesday.
The case arose from twins born in the Washington suburbs in 2001. The woman
who carried the twins for a father used an egg donor and had no genetic
relationship to them. Both she and the father did not want her listed as the
mother.
In a 4-3 decision, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the babies are
not required to have a mother listed on birth papers.
“Maryland’s breaking ground here,” said Dorrance Dickens, a Washington
lawyer who argued the case for the father and the surrogate mother.
Though judges routinely allow blank spaces for mothers on birth certificates
in surrogate cases, Dickens said Maryland’s court is the first to use a
state Equal Rights Amendment to make the decision.
