New Jersey, NJ, Surrogacy Law

New Law Offers Hope For New Jersey Families Having Trouble Conceiving

Source CBS New York

TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — There’s a big change in New Jersey State law that’s making it easier to start a family for couples who are having trouble conceiving.

It involves a gestational carrier, which is a woman who’s carrying a baby that isn’t genetically related to her. That’s very different that a surrogate mother, who is related to the child.

The developing fetus in the gestational carrier’s womb came from someone else’s egg and sperm. It had been all-but-impossible in New Jersey until now.

By all appearances the Goldstein family is a normal, happy family. What makes them unique is that 9-year-old Russell and 6-year-old Jonah were both born from gestational carriers. After a number of miscarriages, the Goldsteins thought their chances for a family had hit a dead end.

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Gestational surrogacy, New Jersey, NJ

Opinion: Gestational surrogacy measure opens doors for NJ families

Source NorthJersey.com

When a patient comes to me asking for help finding a gestational surrogate, my answer up until now has always been the same: I can help you, but it may involve you travelling out of state. Surprisingly, gestational surrogacy has been prohibited in New Jersey for the last three decades. While it wasn’t outright illegal, contracts were unenforceable.

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