Michigan will become the last US state to decriminalize surrogacy contracts
by Joey Cappelletti
Mar 19, 2024
3 minutes
Rachael Lang and her husband share the same last name as their biological daughter, but are not listed on her birth certificate. Instead, it bears the name of a surrogate who carried their daughter due to Lang’s past cancer diagnosis.
Michigan’s ban on paid surrogacy contracts — the only state with such a law — has forced the couple to spend nearly a year trying to adopt their biological daughter.
State lawmakers voted Tuesday to change that, hoping to make it easier for people like the Langs to more easily be deemed
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