Johnson v. Calvert

Supreme Court of California · Decided 1993-05-20

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KENNARD, J., Dissenting. When a woman who wants to have a child provides her fertilized ovum to another woman who carries it through pregnancy and gives birth to a child, who is the child’s legal mother? Unlike the majority, I do not agree that the determinative consideration should be the intent to have the child that originated with the woman who contributed *103 the ovum. I…

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