Surrogate Mom’s Custody Claim

The editorial missed the main issue: Should surrogacy contracts be legal? And should the state protect us from the truth surrounding our birth and progenitors?

Surrogacy usually necessitates an adoption. Adoption experts have been publishing repudiations of their previous support for not only the secrecy mandated in the “adoption option” but the necessity for adoption itself since we now know that adoptees represent an alarmingly high ratio in psychiatric therapy in most psychiatric facilities. Surrogacy proponents will undoubtedly retract their views as they accumulate data on how desperation and deceit affect parties who had only the best of intentions. Alternate solutions for Baby Johnson include shared custody or guardianship with visitation by the non-custodial parent.

In August, five California legislators voted out AB-3907, which would have permitted adoptees and parents the civil and human right to decide for themselves whether they wish to associate. A federal judge in Los Angeles denied adoptees and parents on AmFOR’s class action challenging sealed adoption access to the courts. Meanwhile, adoptive parents in several states have been winning suits to return their “unsatisfactory” adoptive children. California has taken a giant step backward for mankind.

LORI CARANGELO

Executive Director, Americans for Open Records,

Palm Desert