Drafting Committee Chair, attorney Harry L. Tindall, of Houston, Texas, said that the committee's goal was to write workable and sound rules for determining parentage of children born through assisted reproduction.
Internet sites are omnipresent promoting the activity.
Voiding or criminalizing gestational agreements will force individuals to find friendly legal forums for the process, which raises a host of legal issues. For example, a couple returning to their home state with a child born as a consequence of a gestational agreement entered into in a state recognizing that agreement presents a full faith and credit question if their home state has a statute declaring gestational agreements to be void. The intended mother must provide medical evidence that bearing a child would present an unreasonable risk to her physical or mental health. If married, her husband must join her in the petition to approve a written agreement. The gestational mother may receive a fee as compensation for her services.