Surrogacy Law – explained by a Yale Law professor

How is gestational surrogacy treated under state law? When surrogates are used, how do the intentional parents go about establishing their parental rights? And what legal rights do the biological parents have during the pregnancy to make decisions about their child? Yale Law Professor, Douglas NeJaime answers these questions and more and provides a quick overview of gestational surrogacy law in the United States. Douglas NeJaime is a professor of law at Yale Law School and a national leader on parentage law and parentage law reform relating to assisted reproduction. ► For more legal explainers and interviews with the titans of law: http://www.talksonlaw.com ► For a longer interview with Prof. NeJaime on assisted reproduction and parental rights: https://www.talksonlaw.com/talks/assisted-reproduction-and-parental-rights ____________________ Outline 00:00 How is surrogacy treated under the law and where is surrogacy legal? 02:00 Surrogacy and birth certificates 04:00 Complications if the surrogate is married 04:26 Legal protections of the surrogate during the pregnancy 05:30 Surrogate abortion rights 07:35 Contractual restrictions on surrogates diet or health 08:24 Legal issues with genetic surrogate (surrogate is also the egg donor) 11:48 Example: Connecticut Parentage Act 12:15 What is in a surrogacy agreement and what is required? 13:04 Can surrogates or genetic surrogates change their mind?