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Michigan governor signs bill decriminalizing paid surrogacy

Michigan has decriminalized paid surrogacy, becoming the last state to do so, in a move to protect families using surrogacy and IVF.
The package of bills includes nine bills aimed at making it easier for families facing infertility and same-sex couples to have children through surrogacy.
The law updates also make it easier for Michigan families to use other reproductive technologies like IVF and embryo donation.

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Michigan governor signs act to decriminalize paid surrogacy contracts

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the Michigan Family Protection Act into law, becoming the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy, passing a package of bills that protects parents and families with surrogacy or in vitro fertilization.

1 month ago·Atlanta, United States

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Michigan governor signs act to decriminalize paid surrogacy contracts

By Sabrina Souza and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Michigan has become the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy on Monday, after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of bills intended to protect families using surrogacy and in vitro fertilization (IVF). Whitmer signed the Michigan Family Protection Act on Monday. She described the act as a “package of common sense,” at an event in Royal Oak, Michigan. “It’s to protect families born u…

1 month ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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The Hill

Michigan governor signs bill decriminalizing paid surrogacy

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill Monday legalizing paid surrogacy, arguing the controversial practice enables people to start families more easily. The Michigan Family Protection Act also establishes legal protections for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a practice that has been in the political spotlight since it was briefly banned by a court in…

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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Michigan expected to decriminalize compensated surrogacy

Michigan is the last state to criminally ban using a paid surrogate to have a child. Now that will change under a newly-passed law. Families will no longer have to leave the state or find other ways.

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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NBC News

Michigan ends ban on surrogacy contracts

Until Monday, Michigan was the only U.S. state that prohibited compensated surrogacy and surrogacy contracts. A new package of laws does away with the ban.

1 month ago·United States

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Whitmer signs bills legalizing surrogacy contracts

In November 2022, Michiganders voted overwhelmingly to pass Proposal 3, which protected the right to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage management and infertility.

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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