Michigan Senate votes to overhaul state surrogacy law, allow paid contracts

Lansing — The Michigan Senate voted Tuesday to revamp the state's law on surrogacy, allowing for agreements, featuring compensation, between women who are willing to become pregnant and those planning to become parents. Democrats who championed the proposals argued that Michigan needed to update its policies to match new technology and to do away with a criminal ban on paid surrogacy contracts, which made the state an outlier nationally. But some Republican lawmakers blasted the bills, saying the measures would leave vulnerable women at risk of exploitation. At one point...