Future Imperfect

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A California couple wanted a child. The husband was sterile. His wife was doubly sterile – she could neither produce a fertile egg nor bring a fetus to term. They contracted with a sperm donor, an egg donor, and a gestational mother. The donated egg was impregnated with the donated sperm and implanted in the rented womb. Then, before the baby was born, their marriage broke up, leaving the courts with a puzzle: What person or persons had the legal rights and obligations of parenthood?

Under California law read literally, the answer was clear. The mother was the woman from whose body the child was born. The father was her husband.