Guest carries the baby
NZPA-PA London A surrogate mother is carrying a baby intended for a childless Scots couple and has moved into their home to await the birth. The baby was fathered by the husband. An unmarried mother, who became pregnant in November to help the
couple out, is expecting the “contract child” next month and has moved into the home of the labourer and his wife in the Scottish Highlands. The father, aged 36, said no money is involved in the deal. “It’s all done on trust,” he said. But a legal expert has
warned that their plan to adopt the baby after it is born is fraught with dangers, and difficulties. Mr Michael Park, former president of the Law Society of Scotland, said the whole problem of surrogate motherhood and test tube babies was one Parliament would have to be cleared up by law.
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