I just want to put it out there, as a single mom trying to make ends meet, I thought I would let you all know a wonderful way you may be able to earn extra income. I work in the third party reproductive field and we are looking for surrogate mothers to help couples in need. Send me an email at mbrown@thedonorsource.com if you're interested. Its a great way to make extra income especially if you are a stay at home mom or a single working mom, and the most rewarding part- is that you would be changing the lives of a grateful couple and helping make thier dreams of becoming a parent a reality.

Have a blessed day!
Thank you!
Maria

A gal that I work with here in Northern Arizona is looking for someone to be a surrogate mother for her and her husband......if you know of any organizations in my area let me know please.

I dont know of any out that way, since surrogacy is illegal in AZ, they may want to use a surrogate either in CA or CO. They can go to the website www.thesurrogacysource.com or they can talk to the surrogacy case mgr here. Her name is Jamie Williams and she is great. She can answer any questions they may have.

Thanks, I forwarded the information on to her

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Originally posted by mpbmom:
I dont know of any out that way, since surrogacy is illegal in AZ, they may want to use a surrogate either in CA or CO. They can go to the website www.thesurrogacysource.com or they can talk to the surrogacy case mgr here. Her name is Jamie Williams and she is great. She can answer any questions they may have.

It's *illegal*? Why? I'm not terribly familiar with surrogacy, but isn't it when a couple has their egg/sperm mixed in a lab, and the embryo is placed in a woman who's capable of carrying the baby? Why would that be outlawed?

I didn't know this either and thought it was odd...but here is what I found.


"Arizona law criminalizes all forms of surrogacy, paid or not paid, but this law was held unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court in 1994"

Arizona Surrogacy Law

Summary: The legal status of surrogacy agreements in Arizona is unclear. While Arizona law prohibits both traditional (in which the surrogate mother is the biological contributor of the egg) and gestational (in which the surrogate mother is not the biological contributor of the egg) surrogacy agreements, part of that statute has been ruled unconstitutional by an appellate court.

Detail: Arizona statute forbids “surrogate parent contracts.” However, should a surrogacy occur, the law states that the surrogate is the legal mother of the child she carries and, if she is married, there is a rebuttable presumption that her husband is the child’s father. The automatic determination of surrogate as legal mother was ruled unconstitutional by an Arizona appeals court. The case law calls into question the validity of the prohibition of surrogacy arrangements. However, because the appellate court opinion may only have struck down one provision of the surrogacy law, and because the Arizona Supreme Court chose not to review the case, the precise scope of the prohibition is unclear. In one case in 1994, a husband and wife entered into a gestational surrogacy agreement. Eggs from the wife were removed, fertilized with the husband’s sperm and implanted in the gestational surrogate, who became pregnant with triplets. During the course of the surrogate’s pregnancy, the wife filed for divorce and sought custody of the unborn children. The husband argued that he was the biological father of the children and, pursuant to statute, the surrogate was the biological mother, leaving the wife no standing to seek custody. The trial court found the section of statutory prohibition on surrogacy agreements which automatically conferred status as legal mother to the surrogate unconstitutional. The Court of Appeals, Division One upheld the trial court’s conclusion, finding that the statute violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by granting the intended father an opportunity to establish paternity but denying the same chance to the intended mother. Thus, at least in the counties within the jurisdiction of Appellate Division One (Apache, Coconino, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai and Yuma) a purported mother is entitled to rebut the presumption that the surrogate is the legal mother of the child born of the surrogacy arrangement.

Citations: A.R.S. § 25-218 (2001); Soos v. Superior Court ex rel. County of Maricopa, 182 Ariz. 470 (Ct. App. 1994).

Thanks Mashell! Your quick! Unfortunately in alot of states it's illegal.