Baby M was a gift. Born a month prematurely, with a tuft of her father’s dark hair, she arrived no bigger than a loaf of bread. Mike Testa peered into his daughter’s eyes and beamed. She looks just ...

The legal fight over a baby born in New Jersey thirty years ago this month changed the world of surrogacy forever. Now the Shrewsbury lawyer who represented surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead in the ...

In 1986, the issue of surrogate parenting erupted in New Jersey when biological mother Mary Beth Whitehead decided she wanted to keep the child she gave birth to for William Stern, who donated the ...

The first time Tammy and Jordan Myers held their twins, the premature babies were still so fragile, their tiny faces were mostly covered by oxygen masks and tubing. Their little hands rested gently on ...

Birger M. Sween, a Superior Court judge whose key ruling on visiting rights brought the landmark Baby M surrogacy case to a close, died Saturday at a nursing facility in South Brunswick. He was 86.

Baby M is a young rescue pup that has traveled far before landing Maine, and she is now in need of a forever home. Jenny Fatta of Passion for Pets Rescue brough Baby M to our studio. The Shepherd mix ...

Over the past three decades, New York's public policy and attitude about surrogacy has come a long way. The story of surrogacy began with a tragedy—the 1980s case of Baby M (Matter of Baby M., 109 N.J ...

Julia Ashbey, a legal trailblazer known for her opinion on the noteworthy Baby M case, died last week at 92. She was Monmouth County's first female judge. In 1987, along with former judges from the NJ ...