Ypsi: Surrogacy

Laschell Baker of Ypsilanti is featured in a New York Times article about issues surrounding gestational surrogacy. Baker served as a surrogate, giving birth to twins for a Grand Rapids woman. Baker later obtained a court order for custody of the children, after learning that the woman who hired her for the preganancy was being treated for mental illness. Says Baker: “I couldn’t see living the rest of my life worrying and wondering what had happened, or what if she hadn’t taken her medicine, or what if she relapsed.” [Source]