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Alice and Joe are married. They would like to have a child, but cannot, because Alice is unable to bear a child. Alice has a sister, however, who can conceive and is willing to be artifically inseminated with Joe’s sperm, to carry and deliver the child, and then to turn it over to Alice and Joe. Alice’s sister will give up whatever legal rights she may have with respect to the child, and Alice and Joe will take whatever steps are required to become its parents.
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Benditt, T.M. (1983). Surrogate Gestation. In: Humber, J.M., Almeder, R.F. (eds) Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1983. Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-439-9_3
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