Surrogacy is a reproductive arrangement in which a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth on behalf of another person or couple, who become the child legal parents after birth. People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons, such as infertility, the dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy for the intended parent, or cases where pregnancy is a medical impossibility.
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Origin YearSourced to the subject's own accountMarks the first written surrogacy contract in the United States (Michigan lawyer Noel Keane). Informal surrogacy arrangements predate this, and the first gestational surrogacy using IVF was not achieved until 1985-1986; no single universally-agreed origin year exists. Connections
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Surrogacy arrangements involve fertility procedures performed within obstetrics and gynecology.
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WikipediaHistory and legal status section, 1976 timeline entry
Michigan lawyer Noel Keane wrote the first surrogacy contract in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy, lead section
Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman gets pregnant and gives birth on behalf of another person or couple who will become the child's legal parents after birth.
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When was the first surrogacy contract written in the United States?
Michigan lawyer Noel Keane wrote the first US surrogacy contract in 1976.
The atlas records 1976 as the origin year for surrogacy, based on the account that Michigan lawyer Noel Keane wrote the first surrogacy contract in the United States that year. Surrogacy itself is an arrangement in which a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth on behalf of another person or couple, who become the child's legal parents after birth.
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