Mary Beth Whitehead was the surrogate mother in the Baby M case who refused to surrender the child she had borne, precipitating a landmark legal battle over commercial surrogacy.
Whitehead's refusal to honor the surrogacy contract and her legal battle produced In re Baby M (1988), in which the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that commercial surrogacy contracts are contrary to public policy — the foundational American legal precedent on surrogacy.
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