13, September 2014: The very first surrogacy by egg contribution happened in 1985, however by 1986 the controversy began in the USA with the "Baby M" case, after the surrogate and biological mother Mary Beth Whitehead rejected custody of baby Melissa to the couple she had made the surrogacy arrangement with. Due to that case, commercial surrogacy was basically wiped off the map for over 2 years until new regulation started to make it a possible choice once again. In the UK, simply 83 surrogate births were registered in 2010, the year surrogacy for gay coupleswas first legislated. In the USA, more states are now jumping on the surrogacy bandwagon with New York state, Minnesota and Washington DC, all having pending regulation which would lastly legislate the practice of commercial surrogacy. The new regulation was called
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