Michigan has become the last U.S. state to end its ban on surrogacy contracts after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of bills that included in vitro fertilization access and protections for LGBTQ+ parents. Under the 1988 law, potential parents had to seek an order from a judge granting them parental rights upon the child’s birth, or otherwise navigate a complicated legal process to adopt them. Read more about the law and its repeal from NBC News.
