Miller's Court - Happy Birthday #35

DateNovember 7 1983

Can DescriptionsMaster Miller's Court X2943 (Surrogate Mothers) "Happy Birthday" No. 35 Rec. 11-7-83 Air. 11-19-83

AbstractSurrogate Mothers; Miller's Court; Happy Birthday; an infant is cradled, and a couple ask for directions to the maternity ward; mother and child rock while the "parents" observe through a glass window; surrogate motherhood in a contract's details are the issue, and whether the surrogate mother must give up the baby; Monroe Inker and Adriane Berg represent each side of the contract and coercion questions; jurors listen to the lawyers argue each side of the question; black screen breaks; lawyers talk about their strategies; 8 voted for the couple and enforcing the contract, while 4 thought the birth mother should be allowed to ignore the contract and keep the child;

OtherIn the studio Arthur Miller, Julie Sattler Rosene, William Lowell, Diane Sherlock, Mary Ellen Hayes, Bruce Goldman, Stephanie Levin, Emmons S. Levine, Frank Gallozzi, Bayard Peabody, Jr., Joe Mozdiez, Isiah Bradwell, Richie O'Neill, Alan Pratt, Peter Walent, Sumner Shain, Geoff Sullivan, Doug Divitt, Jeff Brawer, Ed Dadulak, Ellen Boyce, Scott Philbrick, Ted Talanian, Glenn Robbins, Carol Fatta, Eric Roth, Linda Adler, Rose Mele, Alex Schapira, Alan Ritsko, Ed Andre, Jim Gilbert, Anne Scurria, James Sweeney, Deborah Battis, Jeffrey Porter, Netta O'Brien, Stephen Minkofsky, KNTV, San Jose, CA, WABC, New York, NY, Claude Pelanne, William C. Brennan, J. Clifford Curley;