(DOWNLOAD) "Stiver V. Parker" by United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Stiver V. Parker
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 15, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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MERRITT, Chief Judge. The Michigan legislature by statute has now criminalized "surrogate" parent contracts under which a woman agrees to give birth and then to transfer her child to another for a fee.*fn1 Prior to the enactment of the statute, the defendant, Noel Keane, as a broker, engaged Judy Stiver under such a contract to have a baby for Alexander Malahoff. Judy Stiver was artificially inseminated with Malahoff's semen, and a baby, Christopher, was born. By mistake, however, Stiver's husband was the father, not Malahoff. Christopher Stiver had an active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection when he was born, secreting CMV in his urine.*fn2 He was diagnosed as suffering from cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID) at birth.*fn3 He was born microcephalic and suffers from hearing loss, mental retardation, and severe neuro-muscular disorders. No one disputes that Christopher's cytomegalic inclusion disease resulted from Judy Stiver's exposure to and contraction of cytomegalovirus, probably near the time of conception or early during her pregnancy.*fn4 Cytomegalovirus can be sexually transmitted,*fn5 although it is also transmitted through other body fluids.*fn6
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