Illinois Becomes Center for Surrogacy

H. Joseph Gitlin (Woodstock, Illinois) has recently published his article entitled Illinois: An International Magnet for Surrogacy?, 94 Ill. B.J. 48 (2006), in which he explains that “[b]y removing the legal cloud over surrogacy in Illinois, the Gestational Surrogacy Act promises to make the procedure more popular with would-be parents.”  The Act “imposes no residency requirements on the intended parents, allows a birth certificate to be issued without a court proceeding, and permits the parent-child relationship to be legally established before birth and a fee to be paid to the surrogate for her services.”