Battle Over Paid Surrogacy Opens New Front
        
            By Alexandra Sifferlin, 
                Time
             | 01. 28. 2015
        
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
             
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The bill is personal for this New York senator
 
  In many states, hiring a woman to carry and give birth to a child for   you is illegal. But democratic New York Senator Brad Hoylman is fighting   to change that in his home state. On Wednesday, he and the New York   State assembly re-filed a bill called the Child-Parent Security Act to   legalize compensated surrogacy in New York, and provide protections that   ensure surrogates are entering into legal agreements and there’s no   question that the intended parents of the child have full rights.
 
  For him, the issue is personal and political.
 
  New York forbids compensated surrogacy and is the only state where   criminal penalties can be imposed on people who enter into a paid   surrogacy agreement. That means that couples who want to use a surrogate   to have a child that they’re genetically related must travel to a state   where the practice is legal in order to do so.
 
  That’s what Hoylman and his husband David Sigal did. Their daughter   Silvia, now 4, was born via a surrogate in...
 
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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