"Under the contract, the natural mother is irrevocably committed before she knows the strength of her bond with her child. She never makes a totally voluntary, informed decision, for quite clearly any decision prior to the baby's birth is, in the most important sense, uninformed, and any decision after that, compelled by a pre-existing contractual commitment...."
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Robert Wilentz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Baby M, 1988.
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