Baby M and the Question of Surrogacy
- Episode aired Mar 24, 2014
Melissa Stern, or as she was more widely known as 'Baby M' was born in March of 1986 to surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead. After answering a newspaper ad, she was inseminated with sperm f... Read allMelissa Stern, or as she was more widely known as 'Baby M' was born in March of 1986 to surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead. After answering a newspaper ad, she was inseminated with sperm from William Stern, in order to carry a baby for him and his wife. It was only when the bab... Read allMelissa Stern, or as she was more widely known as 'Baby M' was born in March of 1986 to surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead. After answering a newspaper ad, she was inseminated with sperm from William Stern, in order to carry a baby for him and his wife. It was only when the baby was born, that Whitehead decided she could not give her baby away. It sparked a national... Read all