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The Whiteheads claimed that Mary Beth was suffering a debilitating post-partum bladder infection at the time, but in fact they kidnapped Baby M and fled from New Jersey for Florida. The Sterns’ counsel applied for, and the county prosecutor issued, warrants for their arrest.
- Mary Beth Whitehead, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
- 1989
Baby M is now Melissa Stern, who has put the case behind her. As an adult in 2004, she legally had the parental rights of Mary Beth Whitehead terminated. Melissa also officially went through the adoption process, legalizing Elizabeth Stern as her mother.
Baby M was a custody case that became the first American court ruling on the validity of surrogacy. William Stern entered into a surrogacy agreement with Mar...
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- Eileen Prose
Mar 6, 1989 · Mary Beth Whitehead-Gould says the emotional cost of surrogate motherhood may have been too high for her, but at least her third child, the girl who calls herself Sassy, is alive and lively.
Mar 23, 2014 · In New Jersey in 1985, a woman of no great means, Mary Beth Whitehead, entered into a contract with William Stern, whose wife, Elizabeth, had multiple sclerosis and feared she could endure...
- 13 min
The Sterns found Mary Beth Whitehead, a 29-year-old from New Jersey, through a Manhattan surrogate agency. Whitehead agreed to a fee of $10,000 to bear Mr. Stern’s child via insemination and yield her parental rights. On March 27, 1986, Whitehead gave birth to a girl.
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While in Florida, Mary Beth Whitehead threatened to kill the child if Stern did not drop his case to enforce the surrogacy contract. She also threatened to accuse William Stern of sexually abusing Whitehead's other daughter.
